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(Photo by Getty)Bruce Willis‘ a woman Emma Hemming gets candid about the reality of having “unconditional love” for her partner amid the actor’s battle with dementia.
Heming, 46, celebrated the couple’s 17th anniversary by sharing her mixed feelings about the day via Instagram on Sunday, December 29.
“17 years of us ❤️,” Heming wrote alongside a throwback photo of the couple. “Birthdays used to bring excitement — now, if I’m honest, they stir up all the feels, leaving a heaviness in my heart and a pit in my stomach. I give myself 30 minutes to sit in the ‘why him, why us,’ to feel the anger and grief.”
He continued: “Then I shake it off and return to what is. And what is… is unconditional love. I feel blessed to know him, and it is because of him. I would do it all over again in a heartbeat 💞”
Emma Heming Willis shared a new update about her husband Bruce Willis’ battle with frontotemporal dementia. Heming Willis, 45, discussed the disease on the Monday, September 25, episode of Today in honor of World Frontotemporal Dementia Awareness Week, revealing that it is “hard to know” whether Willis, 68, is aware of’ to dementia. “What I’m learning is (…)
The a couple first started dating in 2007 – two years after Willis, 69, and first wife Demi Moore62, divorced – and exchanged vows two years later.
Willis and Heming went on to welcome two daughters together: Mabel, 12, and Evelyn, 10. Die Hard star also shares three daughters – rumor 36, scout, 33 a Tallulah30 – with Moore.
The Sixth Sense the actor’s family shared in 2022 that Willis had been diagnosed with aphasiaa disorder that affects how a person can communicate.
According to the Mayo Clinic, frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is an umbrella term for a group of brain diseases that primarily affect the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain” – areas that are “related to personality, behavior and language .”
Heming recently opened i Town and Country for how she handled the reality of being married to Bruce as he continues his health journey.
“Today I’m much better than I was when we got the Diagnosis of FTD” Heming told the outlet in October. “I’m not saying it’s easier at all, but I’ve had to get used to what’s happening so that I can be grounded in what is, so that I can support our children. I try to find that balance between the grief and the sadness that I feel, which can open at any given moment, and find joy.”
In the interview, Heming also shared insight into why some of his early symptoms of the health condition were initially ignored.
“Bruce has always had inhibitions, but he’s been good at hiding it,” he explained. “As his language started to change, it was just part of his stammer (seemed to be), he was just Bruce.”
A bittersweet celebration. Bruce Willis’ wife, Emma Heming Willis, became emotional as she marked his 68th birthday following his diagnosis of dementia. The 44-year-old model took to her Instagram Story on Sunday, March 19, to give fans an update on how she’s processing her husband’s health battle. “I’ve started the morning by crying as hard as you can (…)
Heming added that she was not aware that it could be a sign of something like dementia, given Willis’ relatively young age.
“I would never in a million years think it would be a type of dementia for someone so young,” Heming said.
He continued, “For Bruce, it started in his temporal lobes and then it has spread to the front of his brain. It attacks and destroys a person’s ability to walk, think, make decisions. I say FTD whispers, it doesn’t shout. It’s hard for me to say, ‘This is where Bruce ended, and this is where his disease started to take over.’ He was diagnosed two years ago, but a year before, we had a loose diagnosis of aphasia, which is a symptom of a disease but not a disease.”
