Bruce Willis: Demi Moore says it is “hard to see him like this”

A few days ago, Bruce Willis’ wife in the TV special “Emma and Bruce Willis: The Unexpected Journey” about everyday life with the actor suffering from frontotemporal dementia and was then for their “difficult decision” criticized the “Die Hard”-Star to have given to a nursing home. In a new episode of the “The Oprah ” Also talking his ex-wife Demi Moore about the condition of the former action hero and defends Emma Heming Willis.

“It is difficult to see someone who was so lively and strong and determined to transform into another person”says Moore in an excerpt, the US talker Oprah Winfrey Heming Willis shows when she is over her new book “The Unexpected Journey: Finding Hope and Purpose on the Caregiving Path” speak. Under the title “The unexpected journey: Hope and meaning can be found on the way to care” It will be on the market in Germany from November.

“But”drives Moore, who was married to Willis for 13 years and grew up three daughters with him, “My personal view is that it is really important to pick up sick people where they are. You shouldn’t expect you to have to be the way you used to be or how you would like to have it.” 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 sufferers is also “To be 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”according to Moore. “So if you stay in the present, there is so much – and there is still so much of it there”reports.

When Winfrey directs the conversation to her successor, Demi Moore says that she “So much compassion for Emma” have. “There is no timetable how to deal with something like that. It was so much on Emma to really understand this whole thing. And the most beautiful 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 himself. I really think she has done it masterfully.”

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.