Demi Moore's life was "completely changed" after a profound chat with Garry Marshall on the Happy Days set.
The late creator of the 1970s/1980s ABC sitcom gave the then-unknown star direction that shaped her acting career after he noticed her powerful energy as she watched a taping of the show.
During a Power Talk panel at Krastase’s global Chronologiste launch on Tuesday (03.03.26), Demi, 63, recalled to 45-year-old actress Sara Foster: "I remember I was 14, and I was living here in California, and I was invited to go see a taping of the TV show Happy Days.
"And I was so excited to be there.
"The creator of that show was a man named Garry Marshall, and I don't know what I was doing or what I was saying - and I did talk to him about this many years later - but he turned to me, and he said, 'If you could bottle that energy, you could do something with it.'"
And The Substance star "completely understood" what was being said by Garry - also the director of the 1990 film Pretty Woman.
Demi continued: "That moment, he infused in me a level of, I don't want to say confidence, but a specificity of direction that I needed so desperately; it was able to take something and contain it and direct it towards what I ended up doing for my career."
She and Garry reunited years after their first encounter, and Demi told him how his words shaped her future.
The Ghost actress remembered: "I said to him many years later, 'You said this thing to me and it completely changed my life.'
"And he in fact didn't remember the conversation at all, but it's irrelevant because what is important that I took away from that is also knowing that we never know the seed we might plant for somebody else."
Demi hopes other people can receive encouragement or support like she got from Garry - who died of complications from pneumonia after suffering a stroke aged 81 in July 2016.
She said: "Don't ever underestimate the impact you might have by giving of yourself to someone else."
