In a recent Today segment, the daughters of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis discussed their father’s struggle with frontotemporal dementia. Tallulah Willis, 30, opened up about his health in unprecedented ways, exposing the reality of this challenging illness to a larger audience and on television.
Tallulah spoke about her father’s battle with Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie yesterday on the program where Bruce Willis is battling a progressive brain disease. “He is stable, which is good and hard in this situation,” she revealed. There is so much affection, even though he has difficult days.
In a 2023 episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, Tallulah had described her father’s illness as “a truly aggressive cognitive disease, a very rare form of dementia.”
She expressed sadness about lost possibilities to let their friendship grow organically over time in an article she published for Vogue last year. “I’ve always recognized elements of his personality in myself, and I just know that we would be such good friends if only there had been more time,” she wrote. According to today.com, her father’s illness has taught her to treasure every moment spent with him.
“I’ve come to know how important it is to cherish every moment we spend together, and I genuinely think we would make the best friends. I believe he’s rather pleased with me. It requires you to be in the here and now. She stressed on Today, “You have to be there.
In addition, Tallulah discussed her battle with autism, which she was diagnosed with at the age of 29.
It was so touching. To be quite honest, I felt like a shattered person and truly detested myself. It takes a little more understanding to see that aspects of myself that I mistakenly believed were the product of my disease, flawed, or simply too much for this world are in fact okay. This realization has helped me to be kinder to myself, she said to the Today hosts.
Many applaud the actress’s kid for being transparent about her health issues, as it supports others going through similar experiences.
In summary, Bruce Willis was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia after initially being diagnosed with aphasia. His ex-wife Demi Moore and her daughters Rumer, Scout, and Tallulah Willis, as well as his wife Emma Heming Willis and their daughters Mabel and Evelyn, are all very supportive of him.
