Tallulah Willis shared a video of her 2022 rehab experience on Instagram on Wednesday.
In the spring of 2022, the 29-year-old was admitted to Driftwood Recovery, a treatment facility in Texas, to address her eating disorder.
In the video, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore’s youngest daughter is seen dancing to Shaggy and Rickard “RikRok” Ducent’s “It Wasn’t Me.” The song plays in the background as Willis rides in the back of the van.
Tallulah Willis posted a rehab video in 2022.
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“I’m the absolute cutest in Texas rehab!!! 😛. (2022),” she captioned the video.
Since leaving the facility in October 2022, Willis has shared a few moments from her recovery experience. In August, she shared a photo of her “pre-recovery” body during her eating disorder on Instagram. She began the headline with a trigger warning explaining the content of the post.
“TW: Pic before ED recovery ~ I love her. And I love her, and I see how brave she was. staying the course my bbs ☀️,” Willis wrote, adding the hashtags that read “iloveme” and “edrecovery.”
The Instagram carousel also included a screenshot of a group chat in which she posted a recent photo of her body, with the caption “Look at my healthy body!!!!”
After her rehab experience, Willis wrote a personal essay for Vogue which was published in May.
In the essay, Willis shared her struggles with body dysmorphia, which then led to the development of anorexia. She also shared details about her ADHD and borderline personality diagnoses.
“For the last four years, I have been suffering from anorexia nervosa, which I am reluctant to talk about because, after getting sober at the age of 20, restricting food feels like the last vice I have to deal with,” she said. wrote. “It was mostly a therapeutic experience; for the first time I grieved a 15-year-old misfit, an ugly duckling.”
Willis also revealed that she was admitted to a treatment facility in 2019 when she was 25 years old. During her hospital stay, the actress managed to overcome her eating disorder as well as her depression.
During her earlier inpatient experience, the actress was diagnosed with ADHD and explained that she began taking stimulant medication, “which was transformative.”
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders and can lead to difficulty paying attention and controlling impulsive behavior or overactivity, according to the CDC.
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“It was the first time I felt smart,” Willis recalled of her first drug experience. “But I also began to enjoy the side effects of the appetite suppressants.”
While Willis managed to “build a life out of how [she] looked,” the people around her became increasingly concerned and began to question the effects of ADHD medication on her physical health.
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In the essay, she admitted, “By the spring of 2022, I was about 84 lbs.”
Willis explained how her weight loss affected her physical health, writing: “I was always freezing. I was calling mobile IV teams to come to my house, and I couldn’t walk around my neighborhood in Los Angeles because I was afraid I wouldn’t have a place to sit down and catch my breath.”
Soon after, her family intervened and admitted her to Driftwood Recovery, where she participated in various new therapies and gained more insight into her mental health.
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When Willis left Texas in October, she says she felt much better and came to an important realization.
“I realized that what I want more than harmony with my body is harmony with my family – to stop worrying about them, to bring levity to my sisters and parents,” she wrote for Vogue. “An exhausted body wouldn’t do that. For years I felt the weight of people who cared for me and it brought me to my knees.”
If you or someone you know is struggling with an eating disorder, contact the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) at 1-800-931-2237 or visit NationalEatingDisorders.org.
If you or someone you know needs mental health help, text “STRENGTH” to the text crisis line at 741-741 to be connected to a certified crisis counselor.
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