Rumer Willis Shares Emotional Update on Dad Bruce’s Dementia
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LOS ANGELES — Emma Heming Willis is arguably the country's most famous caregiver right now. She's talked at length about her husband Bruce Willis's frontotemporal dementia (FTD) diagnosis and how it twisted and tangled her happy life into something devastating.
Willis, 70, retired from acting amid his battle with aphasia back in 2022, and was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia a year later. In an emotional conversation with grief expert and author David Kessler, Heming recalled how lost she felt learning the news in their doctor's office.
Asked how she feels about outside opinions on her family’s choices, Emma Heming Willis didn’t mince words: “F—k ‘em.”
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