Demi Moore about Bruce Willis
“It is difficult to see him like this”
Demi Moore speaks about the condition of Bruce Willis and how much the handling of his dementia his wife Emma Heming Willis burdened.
A few days ago, the wife of Bruce Willis (70) in the TV special “Emma and Bruce Willis: The Unexpected Journey” talked about everyday life with the actor suffering from frontotemporal dementia and was then criticized for their “difficult decision” to have given the “die slow” star in a nursing home. In a new episode of the “The Oprah “, his ex-wife Demi Moore (62) also talks about the condition of the former action hero and defends Emma Heming Willis (47).
“It is difficult to see someone who was so lively and strong and determined to transform into another person,” says Moore in a section that US talker Oprah Winfrey (71) shows Heming Willis when they talk about their new book “The Unexpected Journey: Finding Hope and Purpose on the Caregiving Path”. Under the title “The unexpected journey: Hope and meaning find on the way to nursing” it will be available in Germany from November.
“But”, “drives Moore, who was married to Willis for 13 years and grew up three daughters,” My personal view is that it is really important to pick up illness where they are. If you do that, you would find an incredible kindness and something that is soft and tender and loving. “Perhaps it is more playful and childish because they need so much more care.”
The most important thing for dementia patients is also “being present”. Because if you were thinking about how to go on, it just panic. “If you keep keeping your eyes on where you were and what you lost, it only creates fear and grief,” said Moore. “So if you stay in the present, there is so much – and there is still so much of him,” she reports.
“It was so much on Emma”
When Winfrey directs the conversation to her successor, Demi Moore says that she has “so much compassion for Emma”. “There is no timetable how to deal with something like that. It was so much to understand Emma to really understand this whole thing. And the best thing about it, and she also speaks about it in her book, was the realization of how important it is for nursing staff to pay attention to itself. I really think that she did it masterful.”
In March 2022, Bruce Willis family announced that he would withdraw from the acting business after he had been diagnosed with the language disorder aphasia. A year later, the FTD disease was made public.
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Source: Stern
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