Ashton Kutcher forEsquire.Photo: Billy Kidd
Ashton Kutcheris looking back on regrettable moments in his life.
In a newinterview withEsquire, Kutcher, 44, gets candid about past mistakes, at one point comparing the public attention and judgment he received during his breakup withDemi Mooreto a time when he was arrested as a teen for breaking into his high school.
“Feeling it again at 32 is,oof. It’s humiliating and embarrassing,” theYour Place or Mineactor said, also recalling how he’d overhear colleagues at events discussing his divorce and saying, “Can you believe what he f—ing did?”
But, Kutcher later added in the interview, “You own the s— you did wrong, and you go forward.”
Kutcher previously referenced his arrestwhile giving a speechwhen he received the Robert D. Ray Pillar of Character Award at Drake University’s An All-Star Evening in West Des Moines back in 2017.
“You know,” he joked at the time, “I’m probably the first guy to get this award who had a deferred judgment for a felony burglary for trying to break into my high school. By the way, deferred judgment, when you actually get it expunged from your record and you go to get your Global Entry pass, they remember. So it doesn’t everreallygo away.”
Ashton Kutcher on the cover ofEsquire.Billy Kidd
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“I’m also probably the first person to get this award for character who had, like, his name splashed across every gossip magazine as an ‘adulterer’ like five years ago,” Kutcher added.
Elsewhere in the speech, Kutcher explained that character comes “when those magazines tear you apart for something you may or may not have done and you gotta go out and perform tomorrow, with everyone looking at you like you might be an adulterer.”
He continued, “Character comes out when you go to jail for breaking into your high school and everyone in town knows it. And you pull your baseball cap down as tight as you can over your eyes, and you try to make no one see that you’re stupid or that you made a dumb mistake, and you’re not a bad kid, you just made a bad choice. That’s when character comes out.”
source: people.com
