In Touch: Demi Moore is thriving in rehab, has already gained 10 pounds

This week’s issue of In Touch has a rather positive story about Demi’s stay in the Cirque Lodge rehab in Utah, where she’s resided for the past few weeks. Of course, her decision to enter rehab followed a hospitalization for substance abuse issues and was prompted by a seizure after Demi either did whip-its or smoked k2 spice or both. For quite some time, Demi’s also been all jacked up on Adderall and energy drinks while refusing to eat food as well.

Now In Touch reports that Demi is “thriving in rehab” and that she’s already gained back ten much needed pounds. Is this story true? One can only hope:

Just a few weeks ago, Demi Moore was so distraught over he breakup with her cheating husband, Ashton Kutcher, that she was literally starving herself to death. Dangerously fragile — both emotionally and physically — Demi existed solely on lettuce, liquids and pills, and friends feared for her life. But fortunately, Demi checked into rehabe before it was too late — and In Touch has learned that she’s been making a remarkable recovery. “She now weighs over 100 pounds,” a friend reveals to In Touch about the actress, who entered treatment for anorexia and addiction issues reportedly at Utah’s Cirque Lodge after suffering a drug-fueled seizure on January 23. “She is totally committed to getting better.”

Indeed, Demi, 49, has gained 10 pounds since she entired the facility. And, after realizing that she has a lot to live for despite the humiliation Ashton put her through, she has been dutifully eating three meals a day. “She’s thinking about extending her stay in treatment for a few weeks or even months,” the friend reports. “Demi has a long way to go, but she is getting better. She has many days where she feels great. She is on the right path and won’t leave rehab until she’s ready.”

With Ashton completely out of the picture, it seems Demi will truly “come out on top,” as har former publicist, Michael Levine of LCO, tells In Touch. “She’s a real survivor.”

[From In Touch, print edition, March 7, 2012]

The story also goes into detail about Demi’s former diet including a phase where she refused to eat anything but kale, spinach, and collard greens (and never carrots because she feared the sugar in orange veggies). She was also reportedly so terrified of the starch in vegetables that she would often boil veggies and merely drink the broth. When Demi would “eat” beef, she’d only chew it for awhile to taste the juices and then spit out the meat. As we’ve already heard, she often indulged in red bull and vodka but also kept cravings away with green tea and often did the Master Cleanse (with water, lemon, cayenne pepper, and maple syrup) for ten days at a time. Yikes. No wonder she looked like such a skeletal mess.

As a side note, this week’s issue of Star talks about Demi’s “dark secret” of a half-brother, James Craig Harmon, who is currently serving a 10 year prison sentence (he’ll be out in 2015) in Texas for attacking his fiancée and threatening to kill her. Apparently, he’s got quite the history with drugs and weapons. Scary stuff, but I think he’s probably the last thing on Demi’s mind right now.

Photos courtesy of WENN

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