Emma Heming Willis is spilling the truth about her husband Bruce Willis' frontotemporal dementia. The biggest mix-up? It does not touch his memory at all.
Speaking on the Bossticks podcast, Emma explained that Bruce's variant of FTD affects language rather than recall. "Well, he does because he doesn’t have Alzheimer’s, he has FTD," she said, noting the common confusion with memory loss.
The actor's family first shared the diagnosis three years ago. Emma described caregiving as an "ambiguous loss," grieving someone physically present yet changed. She added that all dementia forms "take and they take and they take."
Last month daughter Rumer Willis shared her own reflections, calling time with her dad "different now" yet marked by unexpected tenderness. Bruce has largely stayed out of the spotlight since the news broke.
