In an emotional Father’s Day message, Bruce Willis’ daughter, Rumer Willis, shared an update on her father’s battle with frontotemporal dementia.
The Die Hard star received the devastating diagnosis in 2023. A year prior, the family shared that he suffered from aphasia, a condition that affected his cognitive abilities. With the diagnosis came the news of his retiring from acting.
His family provided him with extreme support and has been updating his fans of Bruce’s condition regularly.
Expressing her pain, Rumer wrote “Today is hard, I feel a deep ache in my chest to talk to you and tell you everything I’m doing and what’s going on in my life.
“To hug you and ask you about life and your stories and struggles and successes. I wish I asked you more questions while you could still tell me about it all.”
Her message to her father continued: “But I know you wouldn’t want me to be sad today so I’ll try to just be grateful reminding myself how lucky I am that you’re my dad and that you’re still with me and I can still hold you and hug you and kiss your cheek and rub your head I can tell you stories.
“I can watch the way your eyes light up when you see Louetta I will be grateful for every moment I have with you. I love you so much dad happy Father’s Day. Sending love to all those who are in the boat with me or have lost their fathers, to the single moms who are the dads too, to my future baby daddy…❤️”
Willis’ wife, Emma Heming Willis, also paid tribute to the actor on Father’s Day.
Since her husband’s diagnosis, Emma took on the role of advocate, offering honest glimpses into the powerful highs and crushing lows of their new normal.
Back in 2024, Emma shared with Town & Country: “As his language started changing, it (seemed like it) was just a part of a stutter, it was just Bruce. Never in a million years would I think it would be a form of dementia for someone so young.
“I say that FTD whispers, it doesn’t shout. It’s hard for me to say, this is where Bruce ended, and this is where his disease started to take over.”
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