Bruce Willis’s brain “Betrays it”again “The language is lost”confessed his wife, Emma Heming Willis, more than two years after the actor was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.
Bruce Willis’s wife made disclosures about the actor’s condition archive
“Bruce is still very active. Overall, his health is good”said Heming Willis on Tuesday in an interview with Diane Sawyer for a special ABC program. “Only the brain is the one who leaves it. The language goes. We have learned to adapt and now we have another way to communicate with it.”
In 2022, Willis’s family announced that the star in Die Hard and the sixth sense withdraws from acting after being diagnosed with aphasia – a neurological disorder that affects speech and understanding of language.
“For someone so talkative and involved, he was visibly silent and, when the family gathered, it seemed to melt, that he was withdrawing a little”said Heming Willis about her husband’s first symptoms. “It was more distant, colder – totally Bruce’s opposite, which was always hot and affectionate. He was shocking and scary.”she added, quoted by The Guardian.
A year later, the actor received the diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia. “Although it is painful, we feel a relief that we finally have a clear diagnosis.”the Willis family transmitted at that time, in a statement signed with daughters, the current wife and ex-wife, Demi Moore.
Emma Heming Willis recalls that the news was devastating: “I panicked. I remember heard the diagnosis, but I didn’t understand anything about what was said afterwards. It was like an empty fall.”
Even so, the actor’s wife says that Willis, now 70 years old, has moments when she shows her once again. “We still have those moments. Not whole days, but moments. It is his laughter – so strong and overwhelming. Sometimes that glitter appears in his eyes or that liqueur of energy. And then I seem to teleport back. But it’s hard, because those moments disappear as quickly as they appear.”
The two married in 2009 and have two daughters together. Heming Willis is about to publish on September 9 a book about his husband’s care experience, entitled Unexped Journey: Finding Stregth, Hope and Yourself on the Caregiving Path (“Unexpected journey: how to find power, hope and yourself on the path of care”).
