Demi Moore's meltdown may have been triggered by distress over the death of her Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor Actress was visibly distraught at substance abuse counselor's funeral 
 
 Demi Moore was rushed to the hospital Monday night after reportedly experimenting with low-rent party drugs. 
 
 Demi Moore's downward spiral may have accelerated with the death of her longtime Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor. 
 
 The actress was visibly distraught at the Cape Cod, Mass. funeral in December for 70-year-old Pattsy Rugg, a renowned substance abuse counselor, People.com reported. 
 
 Rugg had become a mother figure of sorts for Moore, suggests Cape Cod Today, which reports that the star once introduced her as "mom." 
 
 A convulsing Moore, who was rushed to Sherman Oaks Hospital Monday after reportedly sniffing whip-its, a low-rent party drug, was said Thursday to have been released. 
 
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 The actress, 49, was holding a birthday party for friend Heather Perry and was acting "pretty hyper" all night, sources revealed to E! 
 
 It was not clear whether Moore was back at her Beverly Hills home or whether she was off to a treatment center Thursday. Moore's publicist had no comment. 
 
 Monday night's scare follows a rehab stint in the mid-80s and recent claims that prescription pills helped precipitate her November divorce announcement, People reported. 
 
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 The "Ghost" star surely would have been turning to "mom" Rugg in this crisis. 
 
 Her own mom, Virginia Guynes, was never so supportive. 
 
 Guynes had a long criminal history, refused treatment for her own alcohol and substance abuse woes, and posed nude for raunchy High Society magazine in 1993. 
 
 Moore's biological dad, skipped out before she was born, and the stepdad who raised her committed suicide. 
 
 With the disintegration of her marriage last year to the far younger Ashton Kutcher, the star shed weight as her demons seemed to resurface. 
 
 "Demi was scary skinny, everyone talks about that," a friend who socialized with Moore told the Daily News. "She was jumpy, jumpy, jumpy." 
 
 The source said even before her split with the 33-year-old Kutcher, the A-list couple acted strangely in public. 
 
 At one party last summer, they ignored each other entirely, the source said. 
 
 Kutcher has yet to comment publicly, but a source told People magazine he's "deeply concerned." 
 
 The "Two and a Half Men" star, accused of infidelity last Fall, was due back in the states late Thursday after a fashion shoot and party tour in Brazil. 
 
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 Demi Moore will be seeking treatment for anorexia and her substance abuse addictions, and RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned that Adderall is the prescription drugs that she uses. 
 
 “Demi has been taking Adderall and drinking energy drinks and starving herself and those are some of the serious causes that led her to collapse on Monday night,” a source close to the actress said. 
 
 As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Demi had an epileptic seizure before being rushed to the hospital and she is currently seeking treatment for anorexia. 
 
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 “The pills and starvation destroyed Demi and this has been a problem for about a year,” the source said about her tragic situation. 
 
 “She’s constantly jacked up on Adderall and combining that with not eating accounts for her loopy behavior and anorexic body frame. She literally refuses to eat any food.” 
 
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 2010 was a tough year for Demi, with her husband Ashton Kutcher cheating on her with a woman half her age, and this has taken a toll on the Charlie’s Angels star, causing her to seek help for her problems. 
 
 Her publicist said that Demi was getting help “to treat her exhaustion and improve her overall health,” and the source said there are many reasons why Demi is having so many problems. 
 
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 “She’s depressed over her career and coupled with the stress and heartbreak over the split, all of this emotional turmoil in totality has taken a serious physical toll on her body.” 
 
 When asked for comment, Demi’s rep told RadarOnline.com: “No information beyond our statement.” 
 
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 New details are emerging about what went down just before Demi Moore's trip to the hospital for "exhaustion" on Monday night. 
 
 E! News has learned exclusively that the 49-year-old star's evening started off normal enough, with Moore hosting a birthday dinner party for a friend. 
 
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 A source says that shortly after 7 p.m., a small group of girlfriends drove onto Moore's gated compound in the Beverly Hills area for the shindig in honor of the actress' good friend Heather Parry, a former MTV executive. 
 
 "It was just a party for a few girlfriends, not a big rager," the source insists. "No guys. Just girls." 
 
 Also among those at the get-together was Tobey Maguire's wife, Jennifer Meyer, a longtime Moore pal. 
 
 A source says Moore was "pretty hyper" for most of the night and was not her normal self, while another source adds she was "acting crazy." 
 
 And while Moore was seen drinking from a wine glass, the source didn't know exactly what it contained. The actress apparently left the party several times, only to come back minutes later. 
 
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 Following dessert, the affair began to wind down shortly after 10 p.m. All the women began to leave, but one stayed behind. 
 
 This is where the details grow fairly sketchy. 
 
 A source says Moore, for unknown reasons, began to convulse and act "like she was having a seizure." The female friend was understandably concerned and dialed 911, prompting the LAFD to dispatch a team of paramedics, who subsequently rushed Moore to a nearby hospital. 
 
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 Long before the reported paramedics visit and late-night 911 call, before she sought professional help to treat her health issues, the people who knew Demi Moore best were desperately concerned about what had become of their friend.The vibrant, life-loving woman they had known had been replaced with someone who was stressed out, tired and clearly not taking proper care of herself."Really, it was over the last year her friends saw a change," a source recently told PEOPLE as Moore endured the breakup of her marriage to Ashton Kutcher . "She wasn't sleeping as well, didn't seem to be eating and looked really gaunt."As another source put it bluntly: "Demi is a mess." TMZ reported that substance abuse was a factor in Moore's emergency hospitalization Monday night.Moore, 49, who announced she checked into treatment for exhaustion, has not commented on the claims.Sources close to both Moore and Kutcher tell PEOPLE that Moore's prescription drug use was a contributing factor to the end of her marriage to Kutcher, 33."It was a sticking point for Ashton," a source tells PEOPLE. "He wanted her to take care of herself and get a hold of things, and she wouldn't."Adds the source, "Her family and friends have been really worried."As a young rising star, Moore underwent rehab for drug and alcohol abuse in the mid-'80s, when director Joel Schumacher told her to get help before shooting St. Elmo's Fire.After many years of sobriety, she still sticks to water and energy drinks at parties. But she likes to let loose – and some of her recent behavior troubled her and Kutcher's friends.In August 2010, Moore dirty danced on stage at a Snoop Dogg show in Las Vegas. The impromptu stage show was an embarrassment to Kutcher, according to a friend.Says a separate source: "[Ashton and Demi] both like to party, but she tends to wear it all over her. She can talk too much, get verbally abusive and weigh on your nerves."Her thinner-than-ever appearance at recent events has also drawn concern, which Moore acknowledged as she discussed her "love-hate relationship with my body" in an interview in February's Harper's Bazaar."I think I sit today in a place of greater acceptance of my body," she said, "and that includes not just my weight but all of the things that come with your changing body as you age to now experiencing my body as extremely thin – thin in a way that I never imagined somebody would be saying to me, 'You're too thin, and you don't look good.' "After Monday night, friends have never been more concerned. At least now, there may be a silver lining."Demi has had too much pride to come clean about her issues," says a source. "She wouldn't allow people to talk to her about them."Now, it seems, she won't have a choice.
– Did the death of her Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor trigger Demi Moore's downward spiral? The New York Daily News thinks so, pointing to a People report from December claiming Moore was "noticeably upset" at Pattsy Rugg's funeral, which occurred less than two weeks after Moore and Ashton Kutcher announced their split. Rugg had apparently become a mother figure for Moore, who doesn't have a great relationship with her real mom, the Daily News notes. Before being rushed to the hospital Monday, Moore was hosting a birthday party for a friend, E! reports. Moore was "pretty hyper," says one source; another says she was "acting crazy." It was after most of the guests left that Moore started to convulse, and a friend who was still there called 911. Another source tells Radar Moore "has been taking Adderall and drinking energy drinks and starving herself. ... She’s constantly jacked up on Adderall." As for Kutcher, a source tells People he is "deeply concerned" about his ex. Click to see who has replaced Moore in the Linda Lovelace biopic.