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Bruce Willis' wife, Emma Heming Willis, is speaking out about the actor's battle with frontotemporal dementia, and whether he fully understands his diagnosis and deteriorating condition. Heming Willis appeared on NBC's Today alongside Susan Dickinson, the CEO of the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration, in honor of World Frontotemporal Dementia Awareness Week.

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00:00Dementia is hard. It's hard on the person diagnosed. It's also hard on the family.

00:05And that is no different for Bruce or myself or our girls.

00:09Bruce Willis' wife, Emma Hemming-Willis, is speaking out about the actor's battle with frontotemporal dementia

00:15and whether he fully understands his diagnosis and deteriorating condition.

00:20Hemming-Willis appeared on NBC's Today alongside Susan Dickinson,

00:23the CEO of the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration.

00:27In honor of World Frontotemporal Dementia Awareness Week.

00:30Does he know what's going on? Is that something that he is aware of?

00:36Hard to know.

00:37Dickinson shared that the devastating disease can affect self-insight in some people

00:41and take away their ability to understand their deteriorating health condition.

00:45The pair opened up about other ways the disease can manifest in those suffering from it.

00:49It can affect movement. It can affect speech. And what's the other one, Susan?

00:55Um, behaviors, personality, and what we call executive functioning.

00:59During the interview, Hemming-Willis also spoke about coming to terms with her husband's diagnosis.

01:04It doesn't make it any less painful, but, um, just being in the acceptance is, um,

01:12and just being in the know of what is happening to Bruce just, um, makes it a little bit easier.

01:20The Willis family publicly revealed in 2022 that the 68-year-old Pulp Fiction star was diagnosed with aphasia

01:26and was retiring from acting.

01:28They later shared that he'd been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia earlier this year.

01:32Willis and Hemming-Willis were married in 2009 and have two daughters,

01:36Mabel, age 11, and Evelyn, age 9.

01:38Willis also has three adult children from his prior marriage to Demi Moore, Tallulah, Rumor, and Scout.

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01:46This is The Hollywood Reporter News.

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