Emma Heming Willis has discussed the alarming piece of advice she received from her husband Bruce Willis’ neurologist, which prompted her to make some big changes for both herself and her family.
“Caregiving can be really harmful to your health,” Emma recalled in a new interview with NewsNation’s Elizabeth Vargas, which aired Wednesday, October 29.
“I didn’t know that, and I was grateful, yet alarmed, that his neurologist shared that with me, and that was a call for me to start taking care of myself, not just for Bruce, but for our two young daughters.”
The 47-year-old also looked back on the earliest signs that signalled something wasn’t right with the Die Hard star, long before he was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
“I think for me what I noticed was that his stutter started to come back,” she said. “Bruce had a severe stutter when he was a child that he held onto, actually, his life, but was able to kind of get a handle on it, I think, in his adult years. Then I started seeing that it started coming back. Never in my wildest dreams would I think that was now becoming a symptom of FTD.”
Bruce and Emma share two girls, Mabel, 13, and Evelyn, 11, who have watched their father’s health decline through his frontotemporal dementia, which was diagnosed in 2023 and forced him to retire early from acting.
During an interview with Vogue, Emma shared, “I think they’re doing well, all things considered. But it’s hard. They grieve. They miss their dad so much. He’s missing important milestones. That’s tough for them. But kids are resilient.”
“[Although] I used to hate hearing that because people didn’t understand what we were walking through. I don’t know if my kids will ever bounce back. But they’re learning, and so am I.” she continued.
When Emma received the devastating news of Bruce’s diagnosis, she wasted no time ripping the band-aid off to tell Mabel and Evelyn of their father’s impending health woes.
“Pretty quickly, I told them. I have always been very open with the girls. I never wanted them to think that [Bruce] wasn’t paying attention to them,” she shared on Emma & Bruce Willis: The Unexpected Journey with Diane Sawyer, which aired on ABC in August.
“What I learned is that when you give them the information, you wait to hear what the questions might be, and they really didn’t have questions about it. I think there was a sense of relief for all of us that, like, ‘Okay, now we get it and now we understand,'” she added.
Bruce also shares three daughters, Rumer, 37, Scout, 34, and Tallulah, 31, with his ex-wife Demi Moore. The couple was married from 1987 to 2000 and raised their three daughters together.
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