Bruce Willis: No Kidding

Now he's living in Malibu, where the houses are close together but the roar of the ocean forgives a lot. Ensconced in a beachfront home with wife Demi Moore and 1-year-old daughter Rumer, Willis seems to be a model Malibu citizen. He recently accommodated the local sheriff's department by cheerfully contributing his bit to a video saying goodbye to a retiring sheriff's captain.

A secretary informs Willis that his wife is on the line. He speaks quietly into the phone. "I love you king-size," he signs off and hangs up.

Was that night in Nichols Canyon the turning point for him, to calm down?

"No. I was still living hard after that. I was just living at the Bel-Air Hotel."

Willis, who gave up drinking and his Seagram's Golden Wine Cooler commercials along with it, is asked if he was an alcoholic.

"I'm not going to say," he replies. "But I think it was the lifestyle that goes with it that got in the way. All I'll say is that I don't drink right now. Demi was one of the good reasons."

You were a womanizer then?

Willis, startled, caught off-guard, says: "You expect me to answer that?"

Sure, why not?

"Do you mean did I date different women? Are you asking me off the record did I fuck a lot of women?"

No. On the record.

"You're asking me on the record did I fuck a lot of women?"

Yeah.

Shaking his head, not Liking this at all. "No. I've never been a womanizer in a classic sense of someone who doesn't respect women and takes advantage of them to get in their pants. I think women are the coolest thing on the planet."

The question was asked, he is told, because it seemed that women would have been available to him, as a TV star, in a way they hadn't been before.

"No, no," Willis cuts in. "Women have always been available to me. Here's what I think happened. What people liked about David Addison they also liked about me. That flavor of life, that approach to life is mine. That isn't something I embellished on David Addison. That is something I bring to my life as well. A kind of joy of life. And I think that quality has always made me appealing. I was fun to be around even when I was tending bar."

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