DEMI MOORE

It was 1977 and 15-year-old Demi Moore was settling into her family’s new apartment in LA when her neighbour, a young German actress called Nastassja Kinski, asked for her help practising lines for an audition. Moore obliged – and it quickly became apparent that she’d found her calling. “She got so excited talking about acting that I just thought, ‘Well, that’s what she was going to do,’” said Kinski.

Yet even she couldn’t have predicted what a success her neighbour would become. By 34, Moore was the highest-paid actress in the world, earning more than US $12 million for one role and starring in a slew of box-office hits including Ghost, Indecent Proposal and A Few Good Men.

But behind the scenes there was tragedy and turmoil, which Moore recounts in her newly released and much-anticipated memoir, (HarperCollins). Described as “wrenchingly honest”, it details her addictions, divorces, and how she suffered impostor syndrome at the height of her career. “No matter