Bruce Willis’s wife says it is ‘hard to know’ if actor is aware he has dementia

The Independent

Bruce Willis’s wife, Emma Heming Willis, has said it is “hard to know” if the actor is aware of his frontotemporal dementia.  The mother of two spoke to NBC’s Today Show about what it is like caring for loved ones with the condition.  “What I’m learning is that dementia is hard. It’s hard on the person diagnosed and the family,” Heming Willis said.  “And that is no different for Bruce, or myself, or our girls. When they say this is a family disease, it really is.”  She then shared that it is unclear if her husband is aware of his condition, saying “it’s hard to know”.

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00:00 >> You know what I'm learning is that dementia is hard it's

00:02 hard on the person diagnosed, it's also hard on the family.

00:06 And that is no different for Bruce or myself or girls and

00:11 when they say that this is a family disease.

00:14 It really is I think it was the blessing and the curse, you

00:18 know to sort of

00:19 finally understand what was happening so that I can be into

00:26 the acceptance of what is it doesn't make it any less

00:31 painful.

00:32 But

00:34 just being in the acceptance is

00:38 and just being in the know of what is happening to Bruce just

00:44 makes it a little bit easier.

00:45 >> Does he know what's going on is that something that he is

00:50 aware of

00:53 Hard to know.

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