(Idar-Oberstein, Germany, 70 years old), who was in 2022 and with frontotemporal dementia in 2023, remains “very active” and enjoys “good health”, as confirmed by his wife, Emma Heming Willis, in an interview broadcast on television this Tuesday, August 26 with the journalist Diane Swayer. “He [Willis] It is still very active and has very good health despite everything. It is only his brain that fails him, ”he said in a conversation with the American journalist Diane Sawyer.
Emma Heming Willis has participated in a special of the ABC chain to promote (the unexpected trip), a guide on the care of dependent people in which she details some tricks that the interpreter used to continue working before making her diagnosis public.
Willis’s current wife has also assured that, despite the fact that “language is going,” she and her family have found new ways to communicate with and The sixth sense: “We have had to adapt and we have a way of communicating with him that is simply different.” Heming has also revealed that, in some moments, Willis shows “flashes of his personality.” “We still have those days, well, no days, moments in which his laugh is seen. He has such a sincere laugh, and sometimes that brightness in his eyes or that smile that transports me. But they are difficult to capture because those moments appear and disappear quickly,” he says. Yes reveals an important change they have made in her life: she transferred her husband to a second house with a single floor where she can receive 24 -hour attention. She tells Sawyer, breakfast and dinner with him every day.
It was in March 2022 when the actor’s family, which is why. A year later, they made public in a statement – which was also signed by their ex -wife, actress Demi Moore – that this symptom was a characteristic of a progressive neurological disorder that undermines her cognition and behavior day by day, and that she has no cure.
“For someone who was very talkative and very committed, she was a little quieter and, when the family gathered, she simply diluted a little,” Heming Willis explained about the first symptoms he noticed in her husband. “He felt a little section, a little cold, not as Bruce, who was very warm and very affectionate. Doing the opposite of that was alarming and scary.” When she first learned her husband’s diagnosis, she entered “panic and only remembered having heard him and not heard anything else,” he recalled. “It was as if it were in free fall.” As for Bruce Willis’s reaction to his diagnosis, he tells Sawyer: “I don’t think he has ever connected the points.”
He also assures the well -known journalist that he believes that he still recognizes her, and that he continues to maintain a connection with his five daughters. “And that’s all I need, you know?” I do not need him to know that I am his wife, that we marry ourselves such a day, and this is what it is, I don’t need any of that. I just want to feel that I have a connection with him. And I have it. “So despite all the challenges of the disease,” I am very grateful that my husband is still here.
Willis’s family, formed by his daughters Rumer, 36, Scout, 33, and Tallulah, 31, the result of his marriage with, and by his current wife and both his daughters he shares with her (Mabel, 13, 13 years This disease.
Heming, married to the actor since March 2009, will now also do it through a book, which will go on sale on September 9, and that she describes as a guide to find strength, hope and even find oneself on a path marked by care. “This is the book I needed when Bruce received his first diagnosis and I was paralyzed by fear and uncertainty. I trust that he will help the next caregiver. He is full of support, perspective and hope necessary to travel this path. This book is for all those who find our way through the unknown with love, determination and courage. You are not alone,” he wrote in one.
