Daughter Tallulah gives an update
Bruce Willis' illness brings “more love”
30.08.2024, 20:12
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Actor Bruce Willis was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia a few years ago. A challenge for his family, but one that also has positive aspects, as his daughter Tallulah Willis now reveals.
In 2022, Hollywood star Bruce Willis withdrew completely from the public eye. Since then, his fans have had to rely on information from his family if they want to know how the “Die Hard” star, who was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, is doing. His youngest daughter Tallulah Willis is now giving an update on her father's current health in an interview with “E! News” and says that there has been “no change” in him. But that is “a good thing” in his situation.
Just a few days ago, Tallulah's sister Rumer also commented on Willis' health. During a question and answer session on her Instagram stories, she explained: “He's doing great. I love him so much.”
Better communication in the family
Love has been a guiding principle for Willis' family since his diagnosis. Frontotemporal dementia damages the regions of the brain directly behind the forehead, which are important for personality, language, movement and consciousness, among other things. Tallulah Willis is sure that her father understands and feels how much she loves him – and vice versa.
“I know how much he loves me – I know how much he loves all of us,” she says. Of course, his health situation is stressful for Willis' family, but she is sure that it is also the trigger for more love within the family. This is also reflected in the fact that she, her sisters, her stepmother and her mother Demi Moore communicate better. Now everyone speaks openly about what is needed in a situation. “In the past, I may have distanced myself or tuned out. Now there is a larger vocabulary that we have all learned and can use with one another,” says Tallulah Willis, raving about how clearly everyone can now articulate their needs and concerns.
Willis' daughter feels the love
On her Instagram account, the actress occasionally posts snapshots with her father, most recently in March, in which the closeness between the two is evident. You can feel the love at this meeting, Tallulah Willis raves.
Bruce Willis retired from his decades-long acting career and from the public eye in March 2022 after being diagnosed with aphasia, an acquired central language disorder caused by brain damage. In February 2023, his family announced that he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.
