How Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher went from hot property to has-beens: Six key moments that caused couple's popularity to plunge

Fame tin beryllium fickle, and popularity tin beryllium easy mislaid - a acquisition learned the hard mode by Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis who person experienced a large dip successful their popularity successful caller years.

Once wildly popular, the couple, who met portion co-starring successful That '70s Show, which ran from 1998 to 2006, stepped backmost from the limelight past September aft facing nationalist furore.

After much than 2 decades successful the nationalist eye, the actors, who played young mates Michael Kelso and Jackie Burkhart connected the fashionable noughties series, faced fierce disapproval aft it emerged they had written to a judge, penning letters supporting actor Danny Masterson after helium was recovered blameworthy of 2 counts of rape successful 2023. The assaults, to which helium pleaded not guilty, took place at his Hollywood location betwixt 2001 and 2003.

In their letters, Kutcher, 46, and Kunis, 40, who person been joined since 2015 and stock 2 children, begged for leniency for their That '70s Show co-star Masterson, who went onto person a 30-year situation sentence. 

The brace made idiosyncratic submissions to the tribunal - contempt the erstwhile histrion already being convicted for raping 2 women. When these letters came to light, they incited a large nationalist backlash, during which erstwhile atrocious behaviour and different controversies surrounding the mates came to light. 

In their letters, some Kunis and Kutcher spoke highly of Masterson, claiming helium ever 'treated radical with decency, equality, and generosity'.

Seemingly flexing his status, Kutcher's submission included the line: 'I anticipation that my testament to his quality is taken into information successful sentencing'.

He besides wrote: 'He's an extraordinarily honorable and intentional quality being. 

'Over [our] 25-year narration I don't ever callback him lying to me. He's taught maine astir being nonstop and confronting issues successful beingness and relationships head-on, resolving them, and moving forward.'

'Danny is simply a idiosyncratic that is consistently determination for you erstwhile you request him.

'Not lone is helium a bully person to maine I've witnessed him beryllium a bully person to others and the benignant of member others would beryllium fortunate to have.'

Meanwhile, Kunis said she 'wholeheartedly' vouched for Masterson's 'exceptional character' and the 'tremendous affirmative influence' helium has connected those astir him, including her, writing: 'Danny Masterson's warmth, humor, and affirmative outlook connected beingness person been a driving unit successful shaping my quality and the mode I attack life's challenges.'

The Black Swan histrion went connected to asseverate that Masterson is an 'outstanding relation model' - and celebrated his spot to enactment distant from drugs (although it is not thought that this extends to alcohol).

'His dedication to avoiding each substances has inspired not lone maine but besides countless others successful our circle,' Kunis wrote.

'Danny's steadfastness successful promoting a drug-free manner has been a guiding airy successful my travel done the amusement satellite and has helped maine prioritize my well-being and absorption connected making liable choices.'

She continued: 'His unwavering committedness to being an exceptional older member fig to maine has had a transformative interaction connected my life, instilling successful maine a consciousness of self-belief and encouraging maine to purpose for greatness, but each portion maintaining a consciousness of humility.

'His dedication to starring a drug-free beingness and the genuine attraction helium extends to others marque him an outstanding relation exemplary and friend.'

Following Masterson's sentencing, their letters were made nationalist - which it appears the mates did not expect.

At the time, Kutcher was president of the committee of foundation Thorn (which had been co-founded by Kutcher with his erstwhile woman Demi Moore successful 2009 ) - a non-profit purported to assistance combat kid enactment exploitation. Kunis was an perceiver connected the organisation's board. 

During his trial, jurors were told that Masterson had drugged women earlier assaulting them, truthful the accent Kunis enactment connected his dedication to surviving a substance-free beingness was seen arsenic an effort to deliberately undermine the grounds of his victims - a presumption wholly astatine likelihood with the couple's advocacy enactment with Thorn.

They would some spell connected to measurement down from their positions. According to TIME magazine, the resignation came successful the signifier of a missive penned by Kutcher to Thorn's board, dated September 14, 2023. 

While this evident hypocrisy, successful summation to their enactment of a convicted rapist, meant the brace faced a swift backlash, when they attempted to salvage the situation, things got worse for them.

In an effort to appease those angered and offended by their enactment of Masterson, the actors released an apology video - but this would neglect spectacularly, with members of the public, erstwhile fans, different celebrities including Kathy Griffin, and adjacent 1 of Masterson's victims blasting the mates implicit the clip.

During the apology video, which they shared connected September 9 past year, the mates acknowledged they had caused upset to people, apologising for it. 

Kutcher spoke archetypal during the sombre video, which shows the mates sitting side-by-side successful beforehand of what appears to beryllium a woody fence. 

'We are alert of the symptom that has been caused by the quality letters that we wrote connected behalf of Danny Masterson,' helium said.

Kunis added: 'We enactment each victims. We person done this historically done each our enactment and volition proceed to bash truthful successful the future.'

In an effort to explicate wherefore they had supported the convicted rapist, Kutcher said: 'A mates of months agone Danny's household reached retired to america and they asked america to constitute quality letters to correspond the idiosyncratic that we knew for 25 years truthful that the justice could instrumentality that into afloat information comparative to the sentencing.'

Before telling fans the letters were not intended to question the legitimacy of the strategy oregon the validity of the ruling, Kunis said: 'Our bosom goes retired to each azygous idiosyncratic who has ever been a unfortunate of intersexual assault, intersexual abuse, oregon rape.'

Just days aft releasing the apology video, Kutcher came nether occurrence erstwhile more, when a video clip from 2003 resurfaced, showing the actor making a problematic remark astir Hilary Duff portion she was underage.

The footage, from an occurrence of his amusement Punk'd, showed him talking astir the then-15-year-old histrion and singer.

'Hilary Duff is successful Lizzie McGuire, she besides has an medium out,' Kutcher said.

'She’s going to beryllium successful a movie called Cheaper by the Dozen. And she’s 1 of the girls that we’re each waiting for to crook 18. Along with the Olsen twins.' 

While Duff was conscionable 15, the Olsen twins would person been 17-years-old astatine the clip - meanwhile, Kutcher was 25-years-old.

The video was unearthed aft different older clip of Kutcher went viral, wherever during a associated 2002 interrogation with Kunis, the histrion revealed that Masterson stake Kutcher to 'French kiss' her erstwhile she was a '14-year-old small girl'.

The clip of Kutcher and Kunis - which came from a associated interrogation connected The Rosie O'Donnell Show that aired successful April of 2002 - resurfaced conscionable arsenic the brace was successful the headlines aft publically apologizing for letters they wrote successful praise of Masterson to the justice sentencing the histrion implicit his rape conviction. 

The 2002 interrogation took spot during the aboriginal years of Fox drama That '70s Show (which ran from 1998 - 2006).

At the clip of the interview, Kutcher was 24 and Kunis was 19. They chat with O'Donnell astir however aboriginal connected successful the show, the publication called for their characters to beryllium 'making out' successful a scene.

'I'm similar reasoning this is somewhat illegal, right,' said Kutcher, noting the young property of his co-star. Kunis said that the scripted buss was the archetypal clip she ever had ever been kissed, and it occurred during the archetypal week of filming the retro comedy. 

'I ne'er kissed a guy[...]I was a 14-year-old small miss and I was highly frightened for my life,' Kunis said.

Kunis explained however Masterson offered to wager Kutcher $10 to French buss her: 'Danny goes, "Dude, I'll springiness you $10 if you French buss her",' Kunis said, turning to Kutcher and asking, "What, if you instrumentality your lingua successful my mouth?".'

Kutcher said that Kunis was 'making it dependable similar it was really' lecherous, conceding that helium and Masterson 'had a small broadside stake going' connected the kiss.

As much disapproval was levelled astatine the couple, much earlier behaviour resurfaced - notably astir the 2 actors' erstwhile relationships.

Before marrying Kunis, Kutcher was wed to Demi Moore, 61, for 8 years, with the mates divorcing successful 2013. In her 2019 memoir, Inside Out, Moore revealed however fraught the national was, with her then-husband cheating connected her much than once.

In the book, Moore said she 'went into contortions to effort to acceptable the mold of the pistillate helium wanted his woman to be', adding that she 'put him first'.  

'So erstwhile helium expressed his phantasy of bringing a 3rd idiosyncratic into our bed, I didn't accidental no. I wanted to amusement him however large and amusive I could be,' she revealed, adding that the acquisition near her with feelings of shame.

In addition, she wrote that Kutcher said inviting a 3rd idiosyncratic into their matrimony 'blurred the lines', and truthful somewhat justified his cheating.

Meanwhile, earlier getting unneurotic with Kutcher, Kunis had been successful an astir decade-long narration with Macaulay Culkin, betwixt astir 2002 and 2010, though it wasn't until 2018 that she opened up astir the divided during an interrogation connected the Dax Shepard podcast.

She revealed: 'I had a horrible breakup. I had a horrible, horrible, horrible breakup. I f***** up. I was an a****** successful my 20s and I'll beryllium the archetypal to admit it.' 

Kutcher's narration with Danny Masterson is not his lone relationship to look media scrutiny - helium and rapper Sean 'Diddy' Combs, 54, who has been nether probe implicit enactment trafficking allegations, were adjacent for decades.  

During an quality connected The Late Late Show with James Corden successful 2018, Diddy revealed that Ashton's MTV amusement Punk'd - which helium fronted from 2003 to 2007 - brought them together.

He recalled: 'I gave [Ashton] a telephone 1 time and said, "I heard you are going to Punk maine and I conscionable don't deliberation that's a bully idea. If you bash that that volition not extremity good for you, but I deliberation we should enactment retired a deal".'

Diddy explained that helium was fearful of being targeted connected Punk'd aft watching an occurrence with Kanye West, adding that it 'got truthful dangerous'.

In 2019, Ashton shared much details of his relationship with the rapper during an quality connected Sean Evans' Hot Ones. 

At the time, helium said: 'We became accelerated friends. We utilized to conscionable bent retired and ticker shot together.'

Ashton went connected to uncover that helium besides played a portion successful getting Diddy to motion up for the New York City Marathon successful 2003 aft helium had joined the histrion connected a run.

He said: 'Halfway done the run, he's [Diddy] similar "I'm moving retired of state close now." There was paparazzi each astir america astatine the time.

'He's like, "You gotta dilatory down and marque it look similar you're not slowing down due to the fact that I don't privation to look similar I'm not going to beryllium capable to decorativeness this thing." 

Ashton continued: 'And helium was losing it[...]We decorativeness retired the tally and past helium was truthful upset implicit the information that helium got skunked connected this tally that helium decided helium would tally the New York Marathon.

'He conscionable started instantly grooming for the New York Marathon. He conscionable can't lose. Even erstwhile he's that adjacent to humility, it becomes a driver, truthful past helium went retired and ran the New York Marathon.'

The hep hop mogul was arrested connected September 16, 2024 successful New York City connected unspecified national charges. The apprehension follows raids connected 2 of his properties successful March - successful LA and Miami. He has denied the allegations made against him.

Neither Kutcher nor Kunis look to person commented connected the situation surrounding the probe oregon arrest.