Bruce Willis‘The reaction of the daughters Mabel and Evelyn to their diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia was revealed in the special Emma and Bruce Willis: the unexpected trip.
Mabel, 13, and Evelyn, 11, were raised in a conversation between Emma Heming Willis and Diane Sawyer Duration The special one hour, which was broadcast on Tuesday, August 26. Emma, 47, was asked how long he did to tell his children about the diagnosis of Bruce FTD.
“I quite quickly told them. I always have a very open leg with the girls,” he revealed. “I never wanted me to think I was paying them attentive. What I learned is that when you give them the information, you expect to listen to what the questions could be and they really had no questions about all of us, a there, a there, a there, a there, one there, a there, one there, EA, EA, EA, there. Get and now we understand.” “
Emma already came up with acronym, fantastic turtles dancing in Bruce’s head, to help remind them of the Bruce condition.
“The girls gathered that acronym so that we could remember how the letters are going,” he explained.
Bruce, 70, also shares daughters Rumer, 37, Scout, 34, and Tallulah, 31, with ex -wife Demi Moore.
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In addition to talking about Bruce’s children, Emma, who married the actor in 2007, opened when Heal Health’s struggles were present.
“For someone who is very talkative and very committed, he was a little quieter,” Emma said. “And when the family gathered, he would be a child or simply melt a bit.”
Sawyer added in an off voice that Bruce’s family noticed that he was becoming “less committed to their lives” and that a “childhood stutter” had “reappeared.”
“He felt a bit eliminated, very cold, not as Bruce, which was very hot and affectionate,” Emma explained. “Going to the opposite was an alarm and scary.”
While Emma shared that Bruce is “very mobile” and “in very great health in general”, communication for the actor is a fight.
“It is only your brain that is failing … language goes, and we have learned to adapt, and we have a way of communicating with it, which is just a different way,” he said.
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Emma also pointed out that when Bruce spends time with her girls, they notice some “moments” or his former self.
“He has been such a cordial laugh. And, you know, sometimes you will see that brightness in his eye, or that smile, and, you know, they transport me,” he reflected. “And it is difficult to see, because quickly as those moments appear, then they leave. It is difficult, but I am grateful. I am grateful that my husband is still a lot here.”
In March 2022, Bruce was diagnosed with a language disorder called apasia. Almost a year later, the actor’s family revealed that the condition progressed to frontotemporal dementia, which can affect a personality, behavior and language.
“Unfortunately, the challenges with communication are just a symptom of the disease that Bruce is faced. While this is painful, it is a relief to finally have a clear diagnosis,” the Heis family shared in a statement in February 2023.