Rumer Willis Shares Tearful Video About Reality of Being a Single Mom: ‘Some Days Doing Everything Alone is Hard’

Rumer Willis is getting candid about being a single mom.

On Wednesday, Nov. 19, the actress, 37, shared a post on her Instagram Stories about the challenge of being a single parent to her 2-year-old daughter Louetta “Lou,” whom she shares with ex-boyfriend Derek Richard Thomas.

Rumer confirmed she split with Thomas in August 2024.

“Just had a good cry in the woods… some days being a single mom is hard. She is not hard (ever), but some days doing everything alone can be,” Willis wrote across a video of herself wiping her tears away while walking outdoors.

She then added in the caption, “Wow, and I just realized I have food in my teeth…really winning today.”

Despite her emotions, Willis appeared optimistic as she gave the camera a smile and a thumbs-up.

The singer and actress later reposted a quote that read, “I will succeed because I am insane.”

Last month, Willis shared a post of her breastfeeding her daughter on the couch

“For the haters who come at me about breastfeeding my 2-year-old,” she wrote across a photo of her holding Lou. “I hope you have a blessed day 😘.”

Back in May, the mother of one revealed to natflixonlyfans.com that she’s reframing the idea of “terrible twos” typically linked with tantrums and challenging behavior.

“I feel like 2-year-olds get a bad rap, man, … but I’m kind of trying to reframe that,” she said.

“So part of me is like, ‘Get angry, [and] get frustrated,’ ” she added. “I want that to be a safe emotion for her to know that she can feel and that if she’s frustrated and she needs to let that out some way that she can do it.”

Back in May, the star exclusively opened up to natflixonlyfans.com about the “bond” between little Lou and her grandfather, movie legend Bruce Willis.

Despite the Die Hard star, 70, being diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia in 2022, Willis says her dad doesn’t miss a moment with his granddaughter. In fact, she tells natflixonlyfans.com the proud grandpa “gets so excited” when he sees the little one.

“Even with my dad, given the challenges that he’s dealing with, whenever we go over there to visit, his face just lights up and he gets so excited and is so sweet with her,” she said of Bruce and Lou. “My family is so incredible with her. I feel so lucky, and she’s so lucky. I mean, they are obsessed with her.”

The Dancing with the Stars alum also said that since becoming a mother, her appreciation for her own mother has deepened.

“My appreciation for my mom has always been there, but I think inherently and inevitably, it has to just deepen. And I also think the way that you love your child just reminds you, ‘Oh wow, my mom, that’s how she loves me,’ ” she says, referring to her relationship with Demi Moore, 62. “I think it’s just made us so much closer.”