Bruce Willis’s wife shares heartbreaking tribute to dementia-stricken actor

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16 Jun 2025 • 3:07 PM MYT
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  • Emma Heming Willis, the wife of Bruce Willis, expressed profound sadness in a post on Father's Day as the actor lives with frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
  • Willis was diagnosed in 2023 with FTD, a degenerative brain condition affecting communication and behaviour, which his family described as a “cruel disease” with no cure.
  • Heming shared a photo of their daughter Evelyn, 11, hugging Willis, and dedicated the post to fathers living with disabilities.
  • She wrote: “Love deepens. It adapts. It stays, even when everything else changes.”
  • Willis and Heming have two daughters, Evelyn and Mabel Ray, and Willis also has three older daughters, Rumer, Scout, and Tallulah, from his previous marriage to Demi Moore.

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