Rumer Willis has accused ex Derek Richard Thomas of “continuous domestic violence” in bombshell court documents in her custody battle for toddler Louetta.
Demi Moore and Bruce Willis’ daughter has been in a controversial legal battle with her child’s father since Thomas requested a child custody and visitation order in July 2025, US Weekly reported on Wednesday.
Loomer responded in court documents, detailing a “persistent pattern” of “insane emotional abuse” that took place “often in front of her minor children or while locked in a car with them” before their 2024 breakup.
A 37-year-old woman seeking primary physical custody alleged in her filing that “he engages in continuous coercive control through prolonged and cyclical verbal attacks, which he is unable or unwilling to stop. (He) engages in these types of attacks for more than six hours at a time, which have become daily.”
She claimed that Thomas’ “erratic and bizarre” behavior “escalated” after their daughter was born in April 2023.
“I have always tried to keep the peace and walk on eggshells,” Loomer claimed in court documents. “He wanted to isolate me from my friends and family. He kept calling me a liar for no reason. He always said I was a bad girlfriend.
“He acted paranoid and claimed that my mother and I were plotting to take Louetta away from him,” Loomer added. “When Luetta was a newborn, he got very angry when I wouldn’t let his mother smoke pot in the house.”
She continued, “It was difficult for me to confront him because for so long, even long after[Thomas]left home, I was trying to avoid his emotional attacks and abuse.”
Loomer claimed that her left son, Louetta, who is now 3 years old and energetic, is “traumatized” and “crying a lot” and that “without a 730 custody evaluation, I don’t want him to spend the night or spend any time with Louetta.”
Loomer also expressed reservations about sitting in on Thomas’ parenting time because Thomas’ fiancée, Lizzie Loch, “has a known history of relationships and (alleged) fighting in front of children.”
However, Thomas claimed that Rumer made the request because she was “outraged” by her daughter’s “obvious affection” for her new partner.
As for the allegations of abuse, he declared, “I did not engage in any form of domestic violence, including active coercive control.[Our]relationship was unhealthy and ended appropriately, but there was no violence, physical or emotional aggression, or intimidation on my part.”
“The decision between me and (Rumer) to end our relationship was a mutual decision made with our best interests in mind,” he continued.
Thomas also fired back at Loomer’s request to submit to a court-ordered drug test “due to a history of chronic daily marijuana use and evidence of behavior indicating being under the influence of drugs over an extended period of time.”
Thomas insisted he was not a “current marijuana user,” saying in a statement: “I have used marijuana to the extent legally permitted, and I have never used marijuana to the extent that I could no longer fully and adequately perform my duties and responsibilities as a father to Louetta.”
But in court documents, Rumer described an incident in which the exes lived together and Thomas was “so high that he couldn’t look at her for several minutes without her falling off the couch.”
She also accused Thomas in court documents of causing Louetta to “fall out of bed once in November 2023,” and claimed that “he then proceeded to not only cradle his baby to make her feel better, but also pretend that he was mad at me for making her fall out of bed.”
Rumer also requested that Thomas not be allowed to bathe with Louetta, stating that this was “highly inappropriate at her age.”
Thomas, on the other hand, asserted in court documents that “(Luetta) has never suffered for any reason under my care, has never been injured in any way, has suffered no trauma or mental or physical abuse, and has never been neglected under my care. (Loomer) has not detailed a single credible instance of abuse or neglect by me.”
Elsewhere in court documents, Loomer accused Thomas of causing “high levels of stress and confusion” by his erratic behavior during a trip to Los Angeles to visit his “gravely ill” father, Bruce, who suffers from frontotemporal dementia.
Thomas also said he does not pay “any child support” and expects his “wealthy family to take care of everything,” but that is not possible because he “doesn’t rely on his parents to pay for his expenses (and would end up in huge debt with legal fees).”
Moore, 63, weighed in on Loomer’s claims in a statement in January, slamming Thomas’ allegedly “aggressive” behavior during baby Louetta’s birth.
In court documents, the actress claimed that “[he]had no regard for Rumer, the baby, Process or anyone else. He essentially ruined what was supposed to be one of the happiest moments of her life.”
Thomas’ attorney told Us Weekly that Rumer’s filing is “filled with materially inaccurate and false allegations,” adding, “Derek Thomas is a wonderful father who takes full responsibility for his children and wants nothing more than to be a dedicated, caring, devoted father.”
Representatives for Thomas, Loomer and Moore have not yet responded to Page Six’s requests for comment.
Thomas and Rumer went public with their relationship in November 2022, with the latter debuting her baby the following month.
News of their breakup was reported in August 2024, and Rumer revealed through her Instagram Story that she was a “single mother.”
According to Us Weekly, the two reached a temporary custody agreement in August 2025 that would allow Thomas to spend up to six hours a day, three to four days a week, in Los Angeles or Sun Valley, Idaho.
They participated in mediation with a private judge the following month.
After a dispute over jurisdiction in the custody case (Roomer called Louetta, Idaho, his “home,” Thomas argued that Loomer had moved there without his permission), a judge ruled in January that California was the correct venue.
Rumer broke her silence about the breakup in an interview on the Inside Edit podcast last week, claiming the relationship was “brutal and difficult.”
If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this article, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or text START to 88788.
