In March of last year, it was known that “Die Hard” star Bruce Willis, 68, had contracted an illness that meant he had to give up acting. Willis was diagnosed with aphasia, a language disorder caused by disease or damage to the brain, according to him Aphasia Society of Norway.
In February, another update came: Willis had frontotemporal dementia.
It was ex-wife Demi Moore (60) who shared the news. Since being diagnosed with aphasia, the family has shared updates with fans about the illness and treatment the 68-year-old has received.
Now they areR’s wife Emma Heming Willis (44), who With a new update. On Instagram, she says that a clinical study looking for a treatment to diagnose dementia has now ended.
Family: relief
– You will never lose hope
Emma shared a set of photos of her daughters Evelyn, 9, and Mabel, 11, who she had with Bruce.
“Yesterday I read that Wave Life Sciences (WLS) has finished its clinical trial potentially treating frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Not sure if it could help us, but it doesn’t really matter — it still feels like a punch in the gut,” she wrote.
Furthermore, I thanked this attempt, and asked that they continue to build on the lessons learned and the discoveries made.
“Our family will continue to keep the faith and we will never lose hope.”
– He thinks he doesn’t care
On Wednesday this week, Bruce and Demi’s youngest daughter, Tallulah, 29, wrote an article for vogue magazine, Where she told, among other things, about the first time she realized something was wrong with her father.
She wrote, among other things, that she had suspected a possible illness “for a long time.”
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“It started with a kind of vague lack of response.”
The family initially excused him by saying it was a result of the Hollywood life, and that “Die Hard” films had ruined his hearing.
Later, the lack of response widened and sometimes I took it personally. He had two children with my stepmother, Emma Heming Willis, and I thought he had lost interest in me,” Tallulah admits.
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Eventually she realized it wasn’t about her, but he was actually sick – without making it any easier. During a wedding in 2021, she breaks up.
“Suddenly I knew I wasn’t going to have that moment of my dad talking about me as an adult at my wedding. It was devastating. I left the dinner table and walked out and cried in the bush.”
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