Everyone Has Been Saying Demi Moore's Name Wrong This Whole Time

Demi Moore is a household name, thanks to her decades-long career in Hollywood and a recent Golden Globes win for her role as Elizabeth Sparkle in body horror film The Substance. However, amid the Demi Renaissance, an interview has resurfaced where she set the record straight by sharing the correct pronunciation of her name–and apparently, everyone has been saying “Demi” wrong this whole time.

While making a past appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Moore revealed that she’d decided to change the pronunciation of her name to sound like “Duh-me” instead of “Deh-me” because it sounded better with “Moore.” The Ghost alum told Fallon that both she had talked to Demi Lovato about their similar names and why she ultimately decided to put her own spin on it.

”Demi and I had a great conversation about this because she's from Texas and I'm from New Mexico so our families say our names the same way,” she revealed in the 2017 clip, which recently went viral. Moore shared, “But we individually both pronounce it differently. It works better with our last names.”

The star then illustrated the point by telling Fallon, “Like, ‘Deh-mee Lovato’ sounds really good. And ‘Duh-mee’ Moore sounds really good."'

“Like ‘Deh-mee’ Moore sounds like, ugh,” she said, making a face.

It’s not the first time the actress has clarified the pronunciation of her name, as she had to correct KCRA’s Harry Martin in a 1988 interview. At the time, Moore revealed that people said it wrong "all the time" and told the backstory of her moniker, “My parents found this name and we’re quite fond of it. I think they pulled it out of a magazine," she shared.

According to a 2007 The Guardian interview, her mom took inspiration from the name of an Italian shampoo brand for her name, and Moore was born Demetria Gene Guynes. She later took her current last name from her first husband, Freddy Moore, whom she divorced in 1983.

The clip resurfaced amid her recent Golden Globes win, during which the 62-year-old actress revealed that she was dismissed as a “popcorn actress” during her Ghost and Striptease era. While revealing that her trophy for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture was the first time she’d “won anything as an actor” during her 45-year career, Moore told the crowd, "In those moments when we don't think we're smart enough or pretty enough or skinny enough or successful enough or basically just not enough, I had a woman say to me, 'Just know, you will never be enough, but you can know the value of your worth if you just put down the measuring stick.”

She concluded her acceptance speech, “And so today, I celebrate this as a marker of my wholeness and the love that is driving me and the gift of doing something I love—and being reminded that I do belong."

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