Demi Moore, 49, and Ashton Kutcher, 33, found they couldn’t make it after all. Last Thursday they made their breakup public, and it was the end of a fairly bumpy ride.
As PEOPLE had from a source close to the duo, they had grown so unhappy about the situation they stuck in that a clean break was the only solution in sight.
True, they had tried to patch it up in spite of the ever growing tension – caused not only by Kutcher’s supposed cheating by far – but that got them nowhere. Their problems ran too deep for a quick fix-up, added another source. The clash got “pretty intense” now and then, and there was no stopping it by mere counseling.