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Bruce Willis’ Wife: ‘Hard to Know’ If He’s Aware of His Condition.
For the first time since her husband, action star Bruce Willis, was diagnosed with dementia, Emma Heming Willis is sharing her journey as a caregiver in an exclusive interview with TODAY co-anchor Hoda Kotb.
The mother of two and Make Time Wellness founder joined TODAY on Sept. 25 to kick off World Frontotemporal Dementia Awareness Week, alongside CEO of the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration Susan Dickinson. Bruce Willis' family shared that he'd been diagnosed with the condition earlier this year.
During the conversation, Heming Willis shared an update on Bruce Willis' health and life with frontotemporal dementia — and what she wants people to know about caring for loved ones with conditions like these.
"Dementia is hard," Heming Willis said on TODAY. "It’s hard on the person diagnosed, it’s also hard on the family. And that is no different for Bruce, or myself, or our girls. When they say this is a family disease, it really is."
Heming Willis shared it is unclear if her husband is aware of his condition.
"It's hard to know," she said.
Bruce Willis' recent health diagnoses
In March 2022, Bruce Willis' family publicly revealed that he'd been diagnosed with aphasia, leading him to step away from acting.
The disorder affects a person's language processing and communication abilities, TODAY.com explained previously. Someone with aphasia may have trouble understanding speech or with reading or writing, for example.
In February 2023, Bruce Willis’ family shared another update on his health. This time, they revealed that his condition had “progressed,” and he’d been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.
FTD is different from Alzheimer’s in a few ways, Dickinson told TODAY. In particular, it affects a different part of the brain — language processing areas rather than areas involved in memory — so the symptoms present differently.
“It can affect speech, behaviors, personality and what we call executive functioning,” Dickinson said, referring to skills that help to plan ahead and achieve goals.
FTD is often misdiagnosed, so Dickinson shared some of its most notable symptoms.
"What we're really talking about is unexplained changes in how a person is in the world. So, somebody who normally speaks absolutely fine has trouble putting their thoughts into meaningful sentences, or they may lose the meaning of a specific word," she said, adding that all of a sudden struggling with finances, having problems at work, "making poor decisions or (not) completing tasks" can also be signs.
Coming to terms with her husband's diagnosis was "the blessing and the curse," Heming Willis said on TODAY. "To finally understand what was happening so that I could b
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Bruce Willis’ Wife: ‘Hard to Know’ If He’s Aware of His Condition.
For the first time since her husband, action star Bruce Willis, was diagnosed with dementia, Emma Heming Willis is sharing her journey as a caregiver in an exclusive interview with TODAY co-anchor Hoda Kotb.
The mother of two and Make Time Wellness founder joined TODAY on Sept. 25 to kick off World Frontotemporal Dementia Awareness Week, alongside CEO of the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration Susan Dickinson. Bruce Willis' family shared that he'd been diagnosed with the condition earlier this year.
During the conversation, Heming Willis shared an update on Bruce Willis' health and life with frontotemporal dementia — and what she wants people to know about caring for loved ones with conditions like these.
"Dementia is hard," Heming Willis said on TODAY. "It’s hard on the person diagnosed, it’s also hard on the family. And that is no different for Bruce, or myself, or our girls. When they say this is a family disease, it really is."
Heming Willis shared it is unclear if her husband is aware of his condition.
"It's hard to know," she said.
Bruce Willis' recent health diagnoses
In March 2022, Bruce Willis' family publicly revealed that he'd been diagnosed with aphasia, leading him to step away from acting.
The disorder affects a person's language processing and communication abilities, TODAY.com explained previously. Someone with aphasia may have trouble understanding speech or with reading or writing, for example.
In February 2023, Bruce Willis’ family shared another update on his health. This time, they revealed that his condition had “progressed,” and he’d been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.
FTD is different from Alzheimer’s in a few ways, Dickinson told TODAY. In particular, it affects a different part of the brain — language processing areas rather than areas involved in memory — so the symptoms present differently.
“It can affect speech, behaviors, personality and what we call executive functioning,” Dickinson said, referring to skills that help to plan ahead and achieve goals.
FTD is often misdiagnosed, so Dickinson shared some of its most notable symptoms.
"What we're really talking about is unexplained changes in how a person is in the world. So, somebody who normally speaks absolutely fine has trouble putting their thoughts into meaningful sentences, or they may lose the meaning of a specific word," she said, adding that all of a sudden struggling with finances, having problems at work, "making poor decisions or (not) completing tasks" can also be signs.
Coming to terms with her husband's diagnosis was "the blessing and the curse," Heming Willis said on TODAY. "To finally understand what was happening so that I could b
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00:00 Bruce Willis' wife. Hard to know, if he's aware of his condition.
00:04 "It's… hard to know, to what extent Bruce Willis is aware he's struggling with frontotemporal
00:09 dementia," his wife said on Monday.
00:12 In an interview on NBC's Today show, Emma Hemming Willis shared new details on how the
00:16 Hollywood star and his family have learned to live with his illness since his positive
00:20 diagnosis in February.
00:22 "What I'm learning is that dementia is hard. It's hard on the person diagnosed.
00:27 It's also hard on the family. And that is no different for Bruce or myself or our girls,"
00:32 she said.
00:33 "And when they say that this is a family disease, it really is."
00:37 Host Hoda Kotb then asked if Willis was aware of his condition and what's going on around
00:42 him.
00:43 "Hard to know. It's hard to know," Hemming Willis responded.
00:46 Elsewhere in the interview, Hemming Willis said that the family still tries to find moments
00:51 of joy amid the hardship.
00:53 "There's so many beautiful things happening in our lives," she said. "It's just really
00:58 important for me to look up from the grief and the sadness so that I can see what is
01:01 happening around us. Bruce would really want us to be in the joy of what is."
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