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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00:00 dementia is hard. It's ha
00:03 It's also hard on the fam
00:06 no different for Bruce or
00:09 Bruce Willis's wife, Emma
00:12 out about the actor's bat
00:14 dementia and whether he f
00:16 diagnosis and deteriorati
00:19 Willis appeared on NBC's
00:22 Dickinson, the CEO of the
00:25 temporal degeneration in
00:28 dementia awareness week.
00:31 what's going on? Is that
00:34 is aware of? Hard to know
00:38 that the devastating dise
00:39 insight in some people an
00:42 to understand their deteri
00:44 The pair opened up about
00:46 can manifest in those suff
00:49 affect movement, it can a
00:53 what's the other Susan? B
00:57 and what we call executiv
00:59 the interview, Hemming Wi
01:01 about coming to terms wit
01:03 diagnosis. It doesn't mak
01:07 but um just being in the
01:14 being in the know of what
01:17 just um makes it a little
01:20 family publicly revealed
01:23 68 year old Pulp Fiction
01:25 aphasia and was retiring
01:28 later shared that he'd be
01:30 temporal dementia earlier
01:32 and Hemming Willis were m
01:34 have two daughters, Mabel
01:37 age nine. Willis also has
01:39 from his prior marriage t
01:42 rumor and scout. For more
01:44 to thr dot com. This is t
01:47 News. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah