During Demi Moore’s exciting run this past year for a best actress Oscar for her late-career performance in “The Substance,” she enjoyed the enthusiastic support of her three daughters, with the mother and daughters all making it clear that they enjoy being part of a close-knit family.

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Now, Rumer Willis, Moore’s oldest, has offered some more insight into how close that bond is, as Entertainment Weekly reported. In a new podcast interview, Willis, 36, shared that she still sometimes shares a bed with her 62-year-old mother and that she and her sisters, Scout LaRue, 33, and Tallulah, 31, take baths together.

“I still sleep in bed with my mom, and I don’t think it’s weird,” Willis, the daughter of Bruce Willis, told Zoe Winkler on her “What in the Winkler” podcast. She also said about her sisters: “We all still take baths together, my sisters and I. And that’s just the kind of house that I grew up in.”

HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 07: (L-R) Rumer Willis and Demi Moore attend the Tom Ford AW20 Show at Milk Studios on February 07, 2020 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images) 

Willis provided these revelations about her sisterly baths and slumber parties with her famous mother while talking about her decision to co-sleep with her 1-year-old daughter, Louetta, 1, according to Entertainment Weekly.  She said, “Honestly, I hope Lou will, like, still sleep in bed with me when she’s my age.”

During the podcast, Willis and Winkler, the daughter of Henry Winkler and the mother of three children, discussed their different approaches to sleep-training their children, Entertainment Weekly reported. That’s when Willis said that she preferred to sleep with her newborn in the same room, if not in the same bed.

“I co-sleep with Louetta and have not spent a night away from her since she was born,” Willis said, later adding, “I always think about it as, imagine if you took a baby gorilla or a dog when it was 2 weeks old or 3 months old, and had it sleep in a different room than (its) mom. Everyone would look at you like you were crazy. But yet we’re like, ‘Oh no, that kid can sleep through the night. It’s got to fend for themselves, got to learn how to self-soothe.’ They can’t even feed themselves!”

Yes, parents of young children often hear the admonishment from certain parenting experts about the need to teach their babies to sleep on their own and “self-soothe.” To that, Willis said, “By the way, we as adults don’t even know how to self-soothe…. People drink wine, people do drugs, people eat an entire tub of ice cream.”

If Willis felt a need to defend her co-sleeping practices, that’s because co-sleeping is a divisive topic in parenting and pediatric circles. Few conversations elicit as much angst and anger as babies’ sleep — where babies should sleep and how to get them to sleep through the night, according to UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center. The American Academy of Pediatrics has long told parents that their babies should sleep separately, while other traditional parenting experts, going back to Dr. Spock, recommend that newborns be trained to sleep alone by letting them “cry it out to sleep.”

But Willis clearly belongs in the camp that argues that babies have slept close to their parents through much of human history, often for safety and protection but to also make nighttime breastfeeding easier.

During Willis’ interview with Winkler, her host said she thought the decision to co-sleep with a child probably depends on the child, according to Entertainment Weekly.

In this interview, meanwhile, Willis amplified the narrative about  her strong family ties — which have certainly been tested over the years.

In 2000, her parents, Moore and Bruce Willis, finalized their divorce after separating two years earlier. Rumer Willis was 12 years old at the time. But the divorced couple famously remained friends and worked to co-parent their three daughters.

NEW YORK, NY – MARCH 24: (L-R) Actor Bruce Willis, Actresses Rumer Willis and Demi Moore attend the “Love, Loss & What I Wore” new cast member celebration at B Smith’s Restaurant on March 24, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Joe Corrigan/Getty Images) 

They in fact became role models for the Gwyneth Paltrow-promoted idea of “conscious uncoupling” by making an effort to stay positive forces in each other’s lives, including by welcoming each other’s new spouses.

Moreover, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Moore and Bruce Willis quarantined together with their daughters in their family home in Idaho, along with Willis’ second wife, Emma Heming, and Willis and Heming’s two young daughters. In recent years, Moore has rallied to support her ex-husband and Heming as they cope with his diagnosis with frontotemporal dementia.

Perhaps the most serious threat to Moore’s relationship with her daughters began during her marriage to Ashton Kutcher from 2005 to 2011, according to Mamamia.com.

During a 2019 conversation on Jada Pinkett Smith’s former Red Table Talk Facebook show, Moore, Rumer and Tallulah Willis revealed that Moore became dangerously wrapped up in her relationship with Kutcher, even developing an “addiction” to her 15-years-younger husband.

Moore also began drinking again after decades of being sober, they all said. “My addiction to Ashton … was probably almost more devastating because it took me seriously away, emotionally,” Moore said, according to Mamamia.com. Tallulah added that she was only 9 years old when her mother relapsed, while the older Rumer had to deal with her mother when she was drunk and out of control.

Moore’s partying increased after she and Kutcher separated and fell into a rock-bottom moment in 2012, after she suffered a seizure after smoking synthetic cannabis and inhaling nitrous oxide. For the next three years, Moore’s daughters cut her out of their lives, then went public with their individual efforts at recovery for substance abuse, eating disorders and other issues, while also dealing with the challenges of growing up the offspring of Hollywood royalty.

Moore eventually checked herself into rehab and reconciled with her daughters. In recent years, Moore has enjoyed a career resurgence, following the 2019 publication of her acclaimed memoir, “Inside Out,” and her splashy return to acting, garnering raves for her performance in “The Substance.”

Moore’s daughters have supported her along the way, walking the red carpet with her at the movie’s premiere, then offering their public support after she lost the best actress Oscar to Mikey Madison on March 2.

“Watching you today, standing in your power, in your brilliance, in the culmination of decades of hard work, resilience, and undeniable talent — I have never been more proud,” Willis wrote on social media that night.