Bruce Willis’ daughter on his dementia: “He’s still the same”

Bruce Willis is demented. The news shocked the world earlier this year. The film star had already had to retire from acting almost a year earlier. Since then, his loved ones have continued to provide updates on Willis’ health, including his daughter Tallulah. , why her family is so open about the matter and that she even has something positive to say about her father’s condition.

“He’s still the same,” Tallulah Willis told host Barrymore, adding, “In this case, I’ve learned that it’s the best thing you can ask for. I know love when I’m with him. It’s my father and He loves me – that’s really special.”

It is important to her family to use her father’s fate for the common good by creating public awareness of the disease. “Taking something that we have to deal with as a family and turning it around and using it to help other people is very important to us.”

Bruce Willis suffers from frontotemporal dementia

In September, Willis’ wife Emma also spoke about her sick husband. She said that it was “hard to know” whether Bruce was even aware of his illness. It’s “hard for the person diagnosed,” but “also hard for the family. If they say it’s a family disease, then that’s true,” said Heming-Willis.

“Frontotemporal dementia is a rather rare form of dementia,” explained neuroscientist and memory world champion Dr. Boris Nikolai Konrad (39) regarding the star’s illness in an interview with the news agency spot on news. “It is caused by damage to the brain, specifically, as the name suggests, in the frontal and temporal lobes. These brain regions are located directly behind the forehead and are very important for our personality, language, movement and consciousness, among other things.”