{"id":2012998,"date":"2025-09-11T01:17:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T01:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2012998"},"modified":"2025-09-11T01:17:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T01:17:31","slug":"bruce-willis-wife-says-she-considered-divorce-before-dementia-diagnosis-celebrity-news-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bruce-willis-wife-says-she-considered-divorce-before-dementia-diagnosis-celebrity-news-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Willis\u2019 wife says she considered divorce before dementia diagnosis &#8211; Celebrity News &#8211; Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Emma Heming Willis\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/emma-heming-willis\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Heming Willis<\/a> has been an advocate for her husband <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Bruce Willis\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/bruce-willis\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Willis<\/a>, known for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/entertainment\/celebrity-news\/169592\/bruce-willis-wife-tribute-easter?utm_source=mynewsassistant.com&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=embedded_search_item_desktop\" target=\"_blank\">her loving tributes<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>And while she <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/entertainment\/celebrity-news\/182835\/bruce-willis-wife-moment-doctor-confirmed-dementia?utm_source=mynewsassistant.com&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=embedded_search_item_desktop\" target=\"_blank\">has also referred to the moment he was diagnosed as \u201ctraumatic,\u201d<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, she even considered divorce.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cConversations weren\u2019t really aligning anymore, and our relationship started to shift. It was hard to put my finger on why and what was happening,\u201d<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/how-bruce-willis-early-dementia-symptoms-impacted-marriage-wife-emma-exclusive-11802344\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> she recalled at the time.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought it was something I was doing in our marriage that was not working anymore,\u201d she added. \u201cIt\u2019s like you\u2019re banging your head against a brick wall. You\u2019re just like, \u2018Where is the miscommunication coming? What is happening within our relationship?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also admitted that after getting the diagnosis, she felt relief over being able to finally understand it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was relief in understanding, \u2018Oh, okay, this wasn\u2019t my husband, it was that this disease was taking parts of his brain,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cOnce you hear that, I just softened.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.the-express.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2012999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[39659,351258,355805,368557],"class_list":["post-2012998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-bruce-willis","tag-emma-heming-willis","tag-frontotemporal-dementia","tag-marriage-struggles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Bruce-Willis-wife-says-she-considered-divorce-before-dementia-diagnosis.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2012999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}