Bruce Willis Diagnosed With Frontotemporal Dementia

Bruce Willis' children are feeling the emotion after providing the latest update connected his health.

Shortly aft the actor's household shared his frontotemporal dementia diagnosis, his girl Scout Willis, 31, reacted to the outpouring of well-wishes sent their way.

"Feeling emotionally bushed and a spot overwhelmed," she wrote connected Instagram Stories Feb. 16, "yet besides precise successful awe of the emotion truthful galore radical person for my papa."  

Her sister Tallulah Willis agreed. "Second this Scouter," the 29-year-old wrote portion re-sharing the archetypal post, "feeling the abundant emotion for our feline and our family."

Rumer Willis, 34, besides echoed their sentiments. "I 3rd this Scouter and Buusk," she wrote alongside their 2 posts, "feeling truthful profoundly grateful and successful awe of the emotion for america and our saccharine Daddio."

Bruce, 67, shares Rumer, Scout and Tallulah with his ex-wife Demi Moore. He besides has 2 daughters—Mabel, 10, and Evelyn, 8—with his woman Emma Heming Willis.

The "Ladies of Willis/Moore," arsenic they called themselves connected Instagram, past provided further accusation connected Bruce's diagnosis.

"FTD is simply a cruel illness that galore of america person ne'er heard of and tin onslaught anyone," they added connected AFTD's website. "For radical nether 60, FTD is the astir communal signifier of dementia, and due to the fact that getting the diagnosis tin instrumentality years, FTD is apt overmuch much prevalent than we know. Today determination are nary treatments for the disease, a world that we anticipation tin alteration successful the years ahead. As Bruce's information advances, we anticipation that immoderate media attraction tin beryllium focused connected shining a airy connected this illness that needs acold much consciousness and research."

And they noted that the Armageddon alum would privation to stock his story.

"Bruce ever believed successful utilizing his dependable successful the satellite to assistance others, and to rise consciousness astir important issues some publically and privately," the household members wrote. "We cognize successful our hearts that—if helium could today—he would privation to respond by bringing planetary attraction and a connectedness with those who are besides dealing with this debilitating illness and however it impacts truthful galore individuals and their families."

Near the extremity of their message, Demi, Emma and their daughters encouraged immoderate different families facing FTD to consult AFTD for much accusation and asked those "who person been fortunate capable to not person immoderate idiosyncratic acquisition with FTD" to larn much astir it and enactment AFTD.

"Bruce has ever recovered joyousness successful life—and has helped everyone helium knows to bash the same," they concluded. "It has meant the satellite to spot that consciousness of attraction echoed backmost to him and to each of us. We person been truthful moved by the emotion you person each shared for our beloved husband, father, and person during this hard time. Your continued compassion, understanding, and respect volition alteration america to assistance Bruce unrecorded arsenic afloat a beingness arsenic possible."