Emma Heming Willis has been an advocate for her husband Bruce Willis, known for her loving tributes as she cares for him, but she is also admitting she once struggled with potentially feeling a need to divorce him before he was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.
The former model, who has since written a book about being a caretaker, has been opening up more about the struggles she has faced as she helps Willis through his illness, which has left him unable to speak and walk at times.
And while she has also referred to the moment he was diagnosed as “traumatic,” she is now sharing that it also helped her keep her marriage intact, as the distance she felt prior to that point had her wondering if her marriage would survive.
In a new interview with Vanity Fair, the 49-year-old shared that she thought they were experiencing major marital issues as he grew distant.
As a result, she even considered divorce.
“Conversations weren’t really aligning anymore, and our relationship started to shift. It was hard to put my finger on why and what was happening,” she recalled at the time.
“I thought it was something I was doing in our marriage that was not working anymore,” she added. “It’s like you’re banging your head against a brick wall. You’re just like, ‘Where is the miscommunication coming? What is happening within our relationship?’”
She also admitted that after getting the diagnosis, she felt relief over being able to finally understand it.
“There was relief in understanding, ‘Oh, okay, this wasn’t my husband, it was that this disease was taking parts of his brain,’” she said. “Once you hear that, I just softened.”
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