Ashton Kutcher & Demi Moore’s Divorce Drama Covers People
November 21, 2011 by Hollywoodite
Demi Moore pulls a sad face through the botox for the latest cover of People Magazine.
This is the Wednesday cover, out a little early since Monday is the usual tabloid deadline and it’s fairly unlikely something more newsworthy would have pushed this off the cover in the next 48-hours. So, the tabloid war has started early.
We’ve already got an idea of what Us Weekly’s cover will be about; one can deduce, from their references to Sara Leal and the 2010 affair with Brittney Jones, it’s going to be a broader look at who did what, who did whom, and how it led to divorce. People rushed something less-interesting. Adding the age-difference angle everyone else seems to be overlooking.
In the end, the six-year marriage of Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore fell apart because of issues that had long fueled skepticism about their relationship: their famous 15-year age difference, his wandering eye, her insecurities.
As a result, the marriage “[had] been deteriorating for a long time,” a friend of Kutcher, 33, tells People in this week’s cover story. “Ashton was ready to end it, [but] he wanted to wait for Demi to actually do it. He loved her but couldn’t live with her. ”
Moore, 49, “really wanted to save the marriage but couldn’t deal with the pain of his cheating,” adds the friend.
“They were fed up with each other,” a second source tells People.
Several friends note that the age gap between the former power couple, who are worth an estimated $290 million, caused Moore to doubt herself.
“If anyone was uncomfortable with the age difference, it was Demi, not Ashton,” says a Kutcher pal. “She drove him crazy after a while with questions and doubts.” – via People Magazine.
Sound familiar? That’s because People said all this already on the weekend.
The magazine basically rushed a copy pasta of stories it had already published on People.com for free; the couple had been unhappy, tense, and fighting for years with tension compounded by the age-difference and the open marriage. It sounds like People held back one or two quotes from the same sources and teamed those with a file “sad face” photo for the cover. It’s not an exclusive, to be clear (not that People tries to pass this off as one… this isn’t Life & Style). But it is source supposition.
IMAGE CREDIT – PEOPLE MAGAZINE
