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Demi Moore's leech therapy - Video

By M&C People Mar 25, 2008, 18:39 GMT

Demi Moore went to Austria and paid for leech therapy "to feel better." 03/24/2008 - Demi Moore -

03/24/2008 - Demi Moore - "Flawless" Screening Hosted by the Cinema Society - Outside Arrivals - Tribeca Grand Screening Room - New York City, NY, USA © Janet Mayer / PR PhotosThe 46-year-old revealed to David Letterman on television she is a fan of a detox treatment that involves being covering in blood-sucking leeches.Booked on the Late Show to promote her new film, "Flawless," Moore gabbed to show host Letterman: "I feel like I've always been someone looking for the cutting edge of things that optimize your health and healing."I was in Austria doing a cleanse and part of the treatment was leech therapy."These aren't just swamp leeches though - we are talking about highly trained medical leeches. These are not some low level scavengers - we're talking high level blood suckers."She continued: "They have a little enzyme that when they are biting down in you it gets released in your blood and generally you bleed for quite a bit - and your health is optimized.

Demi and daughter Tallulah

"It detoxifies your blood - I'm feeling very detoxified right now. I did it in some woman's house laying on her bed. We did a little sampler first, which is in the belly button."It crawls in and you feel it bite down on you and you want to go, 'You bastard.' Then you relax and work on your Lemaze breathing just to kind of relax."You watch it swell up on your blood, watching it get fatter and fatter - then when its super drunk on your blood it just kind of rolls over like it is stumbling out of the bar."Demi told Dave she had to prepare for the leeches by shaving and taking a bath in turpentine. She also plans to return for more leech treatments.She said: "You first feel worse then you feel better. But I'm going back - I only got 4 leeches and I feel a bit cheated."Letterman asked her: "Are you sure this isn't just menopause?"