Emma Heming Willis: About the guards moments by Bruce Willis

It has been known for two years that action hero Bruce Willis (70) suffers from frontotemporal dementia. His wife Emma Heming Willis (47) breaks out in tears in an interview with the American TV magazine when she talks to him about everyday life and very special moments.

“Sometimes you see this sparkle in his eyes or this grin. That simply puts me in other spheres,” says the model of awake “moments”, in which the actor shows his former personality. “It is his laugh. He has such a warm laugh,” reveals the mother of his two youngest children, Mabel (13) and Evelyn (11), with a smile before she adds with tears: “It’s just difficult to watch, because as quickly as these moments come, they are over again,” she snaps with her fingers.

In February 2023, the family announced that frontotemporal dementia had been diagnosed with the “Die Slow” screen hero. A year earlier, Bruce Willis announced his career end due to aphasia, a language disorder. She documented the journey with the illness in which this will appear in the USA on September 9th and with the title “A very special trip” in Germany in November.

Heming Willis remembers the US breakfast television that she had noticed before the diagnosis that something was wrong with her husband: “For someone who was very talkative and very committed, he had just become a little quieter.” He suddenly distanced a little and worked cool. “Not like Bruce, who is very warm and loving. The exact opposite of it was worrying and scary.” The diagnosis nevertheless snatched the ground under her feet: “I only remember that I heard it and then nothing more. It was like being in free fall.”

She also warns that “FTD can be diagnosed as a bipolar disorder, midlife crisis or depression”, because “many doctors do not know anything about this disease”.