Posted on 08/26/2025 1:43:05 PM PDT by Twotone
Amid Bruce Willis' nearly three-year battle with dementia, the actor's brain is "failing him," and his ability to communicate is fading, according to his wife Emma Heming Willis.
"Bruce is still very mobile. Bruce is in really great health overall, you know," Heming Willis told ABC News' Diane Sawyer in the ABC special "Emma & Bruce Willis: The Unexpected Journey," a preview of which aired Tuesday on "Good Morning America." "It's just his brain that is failing him."
Willis' family shared publicly in 2023 that he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, a type of dementia that impacts one's personality and may cause behavioral changes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
For the 70-year-old actor, famous for delivering one-liners in movies, the primary symptom is the loss of language, according to Heming Willis, who has written a new book about her family's experience, "The Unexpected Journey: Finding Strength, Hope, and Yourself on the Caregiving Path."
"The language is going, and, you know, we've learned to adapt," she said. "And we have a way of communicating with him, which is just a ... different way."
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I’ve been a fan going back to Moonlighting.
My sister accused me of preferring ‘tough guys’ because I liked Bruce Willis. I enjoyed telling her I liked him when he was just a short balding funny guy on Moonlighting. Ha!
That was a fun show. Too bad Cybil Shepard screwed it up.
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