Bruce Willis‘s daughter, Rumer, not too long ago shared a brand new well being replace on her father, providing up a heartwarming piece of reports on the legendary actor.
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Throughout a latest Q&A session on her Instagram whereas streaming dwell (by way of Unbiased), Rumer was requested how her father was doing. Whereas she did acknowledge that anybody dwelling with FTD (frontotemporal dementia) isn’t “doing nice,” her father was “doing okay.”
“I believe it’s type of a tough one [question] to reply as a result of the reality is that anyone with FTD is just not doing nice,” the 37-year-old stated. “However he’s doing okay by way of any person who’s coping with frontotemporal dementia, you understand what I imply?”
Willis went on to say that she stays grateful that her and her household proceed to go to Willis, and provide up their love for him on a regular basis.
“I’m so glad and grateful that I nonetheless get to go and hug him,” the actor — who has a two-year-old daughter, Louetta, with ex-boyfriend Derek Richard Thomas — stated. “I’m so grateful that once I go over there and provides him a hug, whether or not he acknowledges me or not, that he can really feel the love I’ve given him, and I can really feel it again from him.”
In 2022, Willis introduced that he would step away from the world of appearing after being recognized with aphasia, a language dysfunction that impacts the power to speak. In a 2023 replace, Willis’ daughter Rumer introduced that his analysis had progressed into frontotemporal dementia.
In 2023, Tallulah Willis, the daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, wrote an essay for Vogue detailing her household’s response to Willis’ analysis of dementia earlier this yr, the place she referred to as the continuing interval for the household “the start of grief.” She famous that she and the remainder of the household seen that one thing wasn’t proper with Willis “for a very long time” however that it had been chalked as much as Willis’ listening to harm that he suffered all through his lengthy profession on the planet of motion movies.
“I’ve recognized that one thing was flawed for a very long time,” Tallulah wrote. “It began out with a type of obscure unresponsiveness, which the household chalked as much as Hollywood listening to loss: ‘Communicate up! “Die Laborious” messed with Dad’s ears.’ Later that unresponsiveness broadened, and I typically took it personally.”
