911 call recording: Demi Moore was ‘convulsing, burning’

Actress Demi Moore was convulsing and “burning up” after taking an unidentified drug when emergency services were called earlier in the week, according to the 911 call released on Friday.

During the 10-minute call friends tell the 911 operator that the 49-year-old, who split from her younger husband Ashton Kutcher in November after his alleged infidelity, has “been having some issues lately”.

“She’s convulsing so we’re holding her down,” said one of three people who take turns to speak to the operator, repeatedly asking him to send an ambulance urgently to her Beverly Hills home.

“Demi, can you hear me?” a woman says at one point, apparently talking to the star.

“Yes, she’s squeezing hands,” she then tells the operator, but adds: “She can’t speak.”

The 911 call was released, and posted on the TMZ celebrity news website three days after Moore’s spokesman said she was suffering from “exhaustion”, although TMZ said she had been rushed to hospital for drug abuse.

In the 911 call one woman tells the operator that Moore “smoked something, it’s not marijuana but it’s similar to incense… and she seems to be having convulsions of some sort.”

She described the actress as “semi-conscious”, saying she was “sort of shaking, convulsing, burning up.”

“She’s been having some issues lately with some other stuff, but I don’t know what she’s been taking... There’s been some stuff recently that we’re all just finding out.”

Towards the end of the call, a male friend reports that “she seems to have calmed down a little”, adding: “Now she’s breathing fine, she’s not convulsing... she seems calm,” as paramedics arrive at the house.

The 911 call was available on TMZ’s website with sensitive parts redacted, or beeped out – notably Moore’s Beverly Hills address – although initially it posted a version which appeared to be unredacted.