Overview
- In late May 2026, Rumer Willis filed court declarations alleging a persistent pattern of prolonged emotional abuse and coercive control and asking the court to grant her primary physical custody of daughter Louetta.
- Demi Moore submitted a sworn declaration in support of her daughter that describes aggressive behavior by Derek Richard Thomas during Louetta’s April 2023 home birth and cites other incidents she says show controlling conduct.
- Willis asked the court to bar overnight visits until a mental health 730 custody evaluation is completed and to order court‑mandated drug testing for Thomas, who has denied all abuse and drug‑use allegations in his own filings.
- The dispute follows an August 2025 temporary visitation arrangement and a January 2026 venue ruling that placed the case in California, and the parties are scheduled to appear for a judge’s custody and visitation hearing on June 9, 2026.
- If the judge orders the requested evaluation or testing, the outcome could change parenting time and require formal assessments of Thomas’s fitness to care for Louetta, while both sides prepare to litigate contested facts at the June hearing.