How Bruce Willis Conquered Jealousy of Ashton

Bruce Willis famously gets along with ex-wife Demi Moore's new husband, Ashton Kutcher – but, he reveals, it wasn't always so easy.

The Live Free or Die Hard star, 52, who has said he even vacations with his ex and Kutcher, tells the July issue of Playboy that it was pal Will Smith who helped him get over his jealousy when Moore and Kutcher first started dating.

"During some very dark hours he talked to me about it," Willis says. "He said, 'Dude, you've got to do whatever it takes to get the kids and all the spouses or the girlfriend together. You've got to show your kids it's okay.' It was like a light went on. Ding. So Will, thanks. And thanks for all those good movies you're making."

(The New York Post's Page Six column was first to report those comments.)

Of course, now he and Kutcher, 29, are pals. "In the luck of the draw I am fortunate to have Ashton in the family," Willis says. "It took a long time for people to wrap their minds around the fact that I could be friends with my ex-wife's new husband, but we are friends."

Willis, whose 18-year-old daughter Rumer is friends with Lindsay Lohan, says both he and Moore have talked to children about drugs: "We have an ongoing conversation. They have the gene, and we warn them: 'You have a predisposition to be an alcoholic.' It's on her side of the family and mine. It's something to be aware of. My kids are strongly antidrug."

Re: How Bruce Willis Conquered Jealousy of Ashton

It's so hard to negotiate ex's, ex-wives, ex-gfs, new spouses, new gfs, new bfs, with kids. That's great that they were able to do it!

Re: How Bruce Willis Conquered Jealousy of Ashton

AWE
this makes me love both Will and Bruce even more than I already do!

Seriously, what levelheaded, unselfish men!