Ashton Kutcher opens up about pregnancy loss with Demi Moore: 'Really, really painful'

Ashton Kutcher has opened up about he and ex-wife Demi Moore's late-term pregnancy loss.

Kutcher, 44, who is now married to and shares son Dimitri, six, and daughter Wyatt, eight, with Mila Kunis, revealed new details about the painful loss, which happened six months into the pregnancy.

In an interview with Esquire, the That 70's Show star said he had been looking forward to becoming a father and was devastated by the loss, which reportedly happened not long into their relationship.

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"Losing a kid that you think you're going to have, and that close to thinking you're going to have a kid, is really, really painful," he told the publication. "Everyone deals with that in different ways."

The actor, who has made a return to acting in the recently released Your Place or Mine alongside Reese Witherspoon, also spoke candidly about becoming a step-dad to Moore's children with Bruce Willis, Rumer, Tallulah and Scout.

"I love kids," he continued. "I wouldn't have gotten married to a woman that had three kids if I didn't love kids. The idea of having another kid would have been incredible."

But admitted it was a challenging adjustment, given he was in his mid-twenties when he took on the role.

"I was 26, bearing the responsibility of an eight-year-old, a 10-year-old, and a 12-year-old," he revealed. "That's how some teen parents must experience their twenties."

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Kutcher also revealed he and Moore went on to try IVF following the loss, but were unsuccessful. They divorced in 2013.

Moore, 60, has previously spoken about the experience, saying in her 2019 memoir Inside Out that she had been expecting a girl, who they planned to call Chaplin Ray.

"I tried to allow myself to mourn, but it was so confusing. How could I grieve a person who'd never been in the world?," she wrote.

"Ashton did his best to connect with me in my grief. He tried to be there for me during the miscarriage, but he couldn't really understand what I was feeling."