Kutcher and Moore had been married for six years when administrative assistant Sara Leal alleged she had intimate relations with Kutcher in an interview with Us Weekly.


According to Moore's 2019 memoir Inside Out, she found out about the alleged cheating via Google alert, prompting her to confront Kutcher who, in her words, "admitted it right away". The scandal was the catalyst for the breakdown of their marriage, with the pair finalising their divorce in 2013.

Kutcher has never directly addressed the scandal, except for a 2017 speech he gave when accepting a 'Role Model Award For Good Character'. "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," he said, according to PEOPLE.

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