When Demi Moore glides down the red carpet to the glittering Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc on May 23 to host the 30th annual amFAR gala at the Cannes Film Festival she will probably, in the words of a friend, “make it look as easy as she does everything else.”
It will mark a head-turning comeback as “godmother of Cannes” for an actress who has combined box-office triumph with bitter personal tragedy, encompassing addiction, fractured families and two ex-husbands diagnosed with dementia, one of whom has died of it.
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That will, they say, catapulted her out of a nightmarish and itinerant childhood that began in Roswell, NM and continued across the southern US that included saving her alcoholic mother from repeated suicide attempts and losing her stepfather to suicide as a teenager.
Then it helped to unexpectedly launch her into a career that made her, for a time, the highest-earning actress in the business.
The show is based on the podcast “Boomtown,” and is described as being about “roughnecks and wildcat billionaires in the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas.”
“Success is the best revenge,” veteran producer Brian Balthazar told The Post.
“As far as I’m concerned, disappearing from the business for a while at times, only to come back looking better than ever and making great work qualifies as just that.
“I couldn’t take my eyes off her making her entrance at the Met Gala. Anyone who ever doubted her need look no further than Demi Moore in 2024 to be proven wrong.”
