Red Table Talk: How Demi Moore Found Compassion for Mother After Shutting Her Out of Her Life

After a volatile childhood, Demi Moore shut herself off from her mother for eight years. Now, speaking with Jada Pinkett Smith on "Red Table Talk," she gives insight into why they started to reconnect.

For the first time since releasing her memoir, "Inside Out," Moore is joined by daughters Rumer, Tallulah and Scout Willis on the Facebook Watch series, as they discuss their own traumatic mother-daughter relationship, Demi's battle with addiction and more.

In an exclusive sneak peek, Moore recounts the thought process behind trying to smooth things over with her mother later in life, after a childhood marked by drug abuse and suicidal threats from her parents and rape, which she says her mom may have helped facilitate.

"When I distanced myself from my mother, it was completely justified, I was protecting my children from her behavior," Moore says. "But there was a point where I kind of decided who she was and in that moment, when I decided who she was, I realized that I limited her from ever becoming anything else."

"There was a part of my compassion and my humanity that had been lost and how could I expect my daughters to have compassion and humanity for me if I didn't recognize that for my mother," she then wondered.

In her book, Moore detailed their initial falling out. After the actress became famous, she said her mother would sell tabloid stories about her, as well as personal photos. She also sold nude photos of herself mimicking some of Moore's poses and they became estranged for a solid eight years.

They reconciled as her mother was dying of lung cancer and a brain tumor, with Moore staying with her mother for the last three-and-a-half months of her life.

In another clip, Tallulah opens up about her mother's relapse.

"It was like the sun went down and a monster came. I remember there's just the anxiety that would come up in my body when I could sense her eyes shutting a little more, the way she was speaking, she would be a lot more affectionate with me if she wasn't sober," recalled Tallulah. "Which was jarring," added Rumer.

"There were moments where it would get angry and I recall being very upset and kind of treating her like a child,"added Tallulah. "It was not the mom we grew up with."

"Red Table Talk" airs Modays on Facebook Watch.