Rumer Willis is sharing one other heart-wrenching replace about her dad, Bruce Willis.
The “Die Hard” star now has frontotemporal dementia, a progressive mind dysfunction, after first being identified with aphasia in 2022. His eldest daughter struggled on Friday to explain how her father was doing.
“People always ask me this question,” she mentioned in an Instagram Q&A session. “And I think it’s kind of a hard one to answer, because the truth is that anybody with FTD is not doing great. But he’s doing OK in terms of somebody who’s dealing with frontotemporal dementia, you know what I mean?”
The 37-year-old famous that she might simply say, “He’s doing great,” however defined that “those parameters don’t really work anymore.” She elaborated in a separate Instagram Story on Friday.
“The answer that I would give is that I’m so happy and grateful that I still get to go and hug him,” she mentioned. “I’m so grateful that when I go over there and give him a hug, whether he recognizes me or not, that he can feel the love I’ve given him and I can feel it back.”
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Willis married fellow actor Demi Moore in 1987, welcoming Rumer and her sisters Scout and Tallulah earlier than the couple finalized their divorce in 2000. He has since had two extra children together with his second spouse, Emma Heming Willis, whom he married in 2009.
Heming Willis revealed earlier this 12 months that her husband’s mind “is failing him” — and that “the language is going.”
FTD is the results of neuron harm within the frontal and temporal lobes of the mind. It can lead to uncommon habits, communication points and emotional issues, in keeping with the Nationwide Institute of Getting older. There isn’t a treatment, notes the Affiliation for Frontotemporal Degeneration.
Rumer Willis, who welcomed her first daughter, Louetta Isley Thomas Willis, in 2023, finally ended on a observe of gratitude Friday, stating: “I still see a spark of him, and he can feel the love that I’m giving, and so, that feels really nice.”
She continued, “I just feel grateful that I get to go over there with Lou and we get to spend time with him. And I get to feel the love that he has for me and that he puts out for me, and I can love him — and be with him.”
