Demi Moore expected Mikey Madison to win the Academy Award for lead actress, she recently told Time magazine. “I don’t know why I knew, but I did,” Moore said in the interview. “I was so centered and calm. I didn’t feel gutted. I didn’t feel any of those kinds of things. I just trusted, and am in trust of, whatever is going to unfold.”

Read Ryan Murphy’s tribute to Demi Moore here. Here’s what you already know: at the 2025 Oscars, Demi Moore—the favorite for Best Actress, for her performance in The Substance—lost the award to Anora star Mikey Madison.

Sometimes a gut feeling can prove to be quite strong, and the Ghost actress was indeed correct in that particular instance. You may be tempted to assume that she became a bit melancholy after coming to that specific realization. However, the feeling that the A-lister goes on to describe is exactly the opposite: