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Bruce Willis living in a second home in the middle of his battle with dementia frontotemporal, wife Emma Heming Willis Revealed during Emma and Bruce Willis: The Unexpected Journey – and Diane Sawyer.
“It was one of the toughest decisions I had to make so far,” said Heming Willis, 47, in the ABC Special he broadcast on Tuesday, August 26.
Their second home is one story house where Bruce lives full -time with his care team, not far from the family’s first home. Heming Willis, who married Willis in 2009, said she and their daughters – Mabel Ray Willis, 13, and Evelyn Penn Willis, 11 – spent “a lot” of time in the second home with Willis, including visits for breakfast and supper. (Willis is also a women’s father Rumer Willis37, Scout Larue Willis34, and Tallulah Belle Willis31, with ex-wife Demi Moore.)
The Dying hard The actor’s family revealed Was retiring from acting After he was diagnosed with Afasia in March 2022. According to Mayo clinicAffasia is a language disorder that affects how a person communicates. It can affect their speech, the way they write and how they understand spoken and written language.
Almost a year later Willis’s family confirmed that his condition had move on to Dementia FrontotemporalAlso known as FTD. It is an umbrella term for a group of brain diseases affecting front and timely brain lobes – which are areas related to personality, behavior and language, according to Mayo clinic.
Willis’s family have continued to share updates from his health journey with fans, but they put the most close look inside Willis’s life now on the ABC Special. Willis’s wife, Heming Willis opened around when he began to notice the first signs of her husband’s cognitive health decline.
“For someone who is very talkative and very engaged, he was a little quieter. And when the family came together, it would be kind of just melting a little,” said Heming Willis during an interview sitting down with ABC’s Diane Sawyer. “He felt a little removed, very cold, not like Bruce, who was warm and very affectionate,” Heming Willis continued. “Going the opposite of that was scary and scary.”
Sawyer interviewed, 79 Bruce Miller for the special. Although Dr. Miller treats Willis, he is an expert in FTD – which Sawyer said he tends to strike early, as a mean age when patients are diagnosed at the age of 56.
Bruce Willis and Emma Heming Willis.
Theo Wargo/Getty images for film at Lincoln Center“This is actually an unknown disease. People were not actually aware of it until the 1990s. The research on this has just begun,” explains Dr. Miller.
Heming Willis told Sawyer that many patients suffering from FTD are often misinterpreted as bipolar or suffering from emergency and middle -aged depression. The brain scan is only until Pulp fiction The actor was officially diagnosed with what Sawyer referred to as a “black belt” dementias.
The founder of Make Time Wellness was told that there was nothing to do about the diagnosis of FTD Willis, that there was no recovery and no hope.
“To leave there with no … with nothing, just none, with a diagnosis I couldn’t pronounce. I didn’t understand what it was,” said Heming Willis. “I was panic. And I remember hearing it and not hearing anything else. It was like I was free.”
Her experience is what inspired to share her family’s journey in a new book, The unexpected journey: Find strength, hope, and yourself on the path of careAs a way to throw a lifeline for loved ones and care donors who inform similar journeys with FTD diagnosis.