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Bruce Willis<\/a> is living in a second, \u201csafer\u201d home away from his wife and kids to be with his caregivers 24\/7, his wife told Diane Sawyer in an interview aired Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt was one of the hardest decisions that I\u2019ve had to make so far,\u201d Emma Heming Willis told Sawyer. \u201cBut I knew first and foremost, Bruce would want that for our daughters. He would want them to be in a home that was more tailored to their needs, not his needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Willis and Heming Willis share daughters Mabel, 13, and Evelyn, 11, while he and his ex-wife, actor Demi Moore, share daughters Rumer, 37, Scout, 34, and Tallulah, 31.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In 2022, Willis\u2019 family, including Moore, announced<\/a> that he was living with aphasia, which affects one\u2019s ability to communicate, and that he would retire from acting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The next year, the family said Willis was living with dementia<\/a>. In the ABC News special with Sawyer, Heming Willis gave an inside look at her husband\u2019s experience with the disease, saying she moved him into a \u201csafer\u201d one-story home so he could be with his caregivers all the time. She said she visits him at the second home every morning for breakfast and every night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt is a house that is filled with love and warmth and care and laughter,\u201d Heming Willis said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Willis has frontotemporal dementia<\/a>, which causes a person to lose their words. The 70-year-old Willis is still walking and seemingly unaware of his diagnosis, his wife said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cBruce is in really great health overall,\u201d Heming Willis said<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s just his brain that is failing him. The language is going, and we\u2019ve learned to adapt. And we have a way of communicating with him, which is just a different way.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Actor Bruce Willis and wife Emma Heming attend the premiere of “Glass” at the SVA Theatre on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019, in New York.<\/figcaption>
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Heming Willis said that she first started noticing a difference in Willis when he became quieter and would \u201cmelt a little bit\u201d when the family got together. She said he stopped wanting to take their two daughters to school, and then his childhood stutter returned. Heming Willis said it was all \u201calarming and scary.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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When doctors diagnosed Willis with frontotemporal dementia a few years ago and told Heming Willis there was no cure, she was \u201cpanicked.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI just remember hearing it and just not hearing anything else,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She shared that she now struggles to remember what the actor was like before his diagnosis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s also even really hard for me today to go back in time to remember even the fun, because I\u2019m so caught up in today, of what today looks like and walking this journey with him today, that I can\u2019t remember,\u201d she said. \u201cI just have a really hard time remembering who he was.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But she said she still sees moments of the old Willis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s his laugh, right? Like, he has such a hearty laugh,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd, you know, sometimes you\u2019ll see that twinkle in his eye, or that smirk, and, you know, I just get transported.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Heming Willis wrote the book \u201cThe Unexpected Journey: Finding Strength, Hope, and Yourself on the Caregiving Path\u201d about caring for Willis, and she said she hopes to give other caregivers a roadmap.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n