Moore uses blood-sucking leech treatment

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Demi Moore has revealed that she used blood-sucking leeches as part of a beauty treatment in Austria.

The actress said that the "highly-trained medical leeches" helped detoxify her blood and ensured her health was "optimised".

Speaking on The Late Show With David Letterman, she said: "I’ve always been somebody looking for the cutting edge of things that are for optimising your health and healing, so just a week ago I was in Austria doing a cleanse and part of the treatment was leech therapy.

"These aren’t just swamp leeches, these are highly trained medical leeches. These are not just some low-level scavengers; we’re talking high-level blood-suckers."

Talking about the effects, Moore added: "It detoxifies your blood. And they have a little enzyme that, when they’re biting down on you, gets released into your blood and generally you bleed for quite a bit. And your health is optimised.

"It detoxified the blood and I’m feeling detoxified right now."