Bruce Willis and his wife, Emma Heming Willis, have a new way of communicating.
In an interview with The Times on Saturday, September 13, Emma, 47, opened up about one of the ways she and the Die Hard actor, 70, are working through his dementia.
“Bruce and I now have our own language, our own way to be with each other,” she told the outlet.
“It’s just about sitting with him, walking with him, listening to him as he tries to verbalise in his own language,” she explained. “Hearing him, validating him.”
The mom of two — who shares daughters Mabel, 13, and Evelyn, 11, with the Golden Globe Award winner — said she and Bruce still “have these moments of connection all the time,” regardless of his neurodegenerative disease.
“Do I think he knows, ‘Oh, this is Emma, and we’ve been married for this many years’? I don’t know what that process is for him,” she admitted.
“When he puts his arms around me, it just feels like Bruce. It’s not different in that way,” Emma shared. “And that’s really, really beautiful and really, really heartbreaking.”
Last week, Emma released her book The Unexpected Journey: Finding Strength, Hope and Yourself on the Caregiving Path, and discussed how she can’t ask Bruce questions about his well-being outright.
“I can’t ask him how he’s feeling, what’s wrong, or if something hurts,” she wrote, per The Times. “Instead I read his body language or look into his eyes to understand what’s bothering him and what he’s experiencing.”
The Pulp Fiction star was diagnosed with Frontotemporal dementia and primary progressive aphasia in 2022. He publicly came forward with his diagnosis in February 2023.
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