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Bruce Willis Diagnosed With Frontotemporal Dementia
Bruce Willis' woman Emma Heming Willis is taking a travel down representation lane.
The model, 44, took to Instagram Stories March 1 to stock a throwback video of the actor, 67, showing his enactment for her assemblage attraction enactment CocoBaba, with her calling him "My #1 fan."
The aged clip showed Bruce promoting the marque by saying, "USA Weekly interrogation with Emma Heming Willis, laminitis and CEO of CocoBaba." And erstwhile Emma asked, "How 'bout it?" Bruce replied, "How 'bout it? I'm brainsick astir it."
The footage appeared to interaction Emma's heart. "What's this caller Memory thingy connected IG!?" she wrote alongside the post. "Omg my biggest fan. I'm successful emotion with him."
The resurfaced video comes 2 weeks aft Emma, Bruce's ex-wife Demi Moore, and his daughters Rumer Willis, 34; Scout Willis, 31; Tallulah Willis, 29; Mabel Ray Willis, 10; and Evelyn Penn Willis, 8, gave an update connected his health.
After initially announcing successful March 2022 that the Die Hard prima had been diagnosed with aphasia—resulting successful him stepping distant from his acting career—the household shared successful a Feb. 16 connection that his "condition has progressed and we present person a much circumstantial diagnosis: frontotemporal dementia (known arsenic FTD)."
"Unfortunately, challenges with connection are conscionable 1 grounds of the illness Bruce faces," the statement, shared to The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration's website, read. "While this is painful, it is simply a alleviation to yet person a wide diagnosis."
The self-dubbed "Ladies of Willis/Moore" described FTD arsenic a "cruel illness that galore of america person ne'er heard of and tin onslaught anyone" and said "FTD is the astir communal signifier of dementia" for radical nether 60.
"Today determination are nary treatments for the disease, a world that we anticipation tin alteration successful the years ahead," they added. "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."
They past expressed however Bruce would privation to stock his communicative to assistance others.
"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 connection read. "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."
After encouraging families affected by FTD to consult AFTD's website for accusation and asking those "who person been fortunate capable to not person immoderate idiosyncratic acquisition with FTD" to larn much astir it and enactment AFTD, Emma, Demi and the kids thanked Bruce's fans for their support.
"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."
Bruce's 3 eldest daughters echoed this message successful abstracted posts connected Instagram. "Feeling emotionally bushed and a spot overwhelmed," Scout wrote successful a Feb. 16 station that was reshared by Rumer and Tallulah, "yet besides precise successful awe of the emotion truthful galore radical person for my papa."
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