Hollywood royalty was in the building this week at Los Angeles’ K-EARTH as The Gary Bryan Morning Show welcomed Scout LaRue Willis in studio to talk about her brand new music, famous parents, and more.

Scout LaRue has been making the rounds to promote her brand new single, "Take Me," released on October 10, and during her visit, she gave us some inside baseball on her famous family. Starting off with her unique name -- Scout LaRue -- she explains that her mother, Demi Moore, had been reading To Kill A Mockingbird while she was pregnant with her. "So, Scout, the protagonist, the obvious choice for, you know, a girl's name, and it's a beautiful character to be named after," she says. "LaRue, I don't know where she got that. We all ended up with bizarrely southern names.”

“But it means ‘the street’ in France,” she adds. “So, when I lived in France as a host student when I was 15… they can't pronounce ‘Scout.’ So it was ‘Scooter.’

Growing up in a small mountain town, Scout says she realized pretty early that she had very famous parents. “We were growing up in a very small ski town,” she explains, “so I did clock the difference, let's say second grade,” she adds, though doesn’t remember ever asking about it flat out. “I think I was conscious of the difference and I felt quite like, embarrassed and ashamed of it actually. I was afraid of being judged for it, even as a very small child. I think ‘difference’ for kids in elementary school is perceived as ‘dangerous.’”

Providing a health update on her father, Bruce Willis, who was diagnosed in 2022 with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), which can cause changes in behavior and personality, Scout tells us, “My dad is so surrounded by love and more than anything else, this is something that has brought our entire family together and I feel so incredibly grateful that my family is so close.”

“My stepmom, my little sisters, my sisters, my mom, my dad -- I'm about to call him Bruce -- my dad has a lot of really powerful women around him and so I think he gets to bask in all of our love and attention constantly,” Scout adds.

And he has heard Scout’s new music, she says, which “put a smile on his face.”

“He has these headphones that do a very cool thing,” she explains. “They stimulate the vagus nerve. It's a whole very fancy, healthy headphones. I was over there last week and Talula put my music on there and just [to] see his face light up was so amazing.”

Scout LaRue Willis' self-titled debut is available now. Check out her brand new music video for "Take Me" above.

Words by Joe Cingrana Interview by The Gary Bryan Morning Show