{"id":2024045,"date":"2025-09-15T16:41:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T16:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2024045"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:41:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T16:41:30","slug":"bruce-willis-young-daughters-find-comfort-in-his-past-films-amid-his-dementia-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bruce-willis-young-daughters-find-comfort-in-his-past-films-amid-his-dementia-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Willis&#8217; Young Daughters Find Comfort in His Past Films amid His Dementia Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\">NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bruce Willis&#8217; wife Emma Heming Willis said in a new interview that their daughters Evelyn, 11, and Mabel, 13, love Bruce&#8217;s movies Over the Hedge and Moonrise Kingdom<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIt\u2019s really hard to look back at the old movies,\u201d Emma admitted of Bruce&#8217;s filmography<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bruce retired from acting in 2022 and was diagnosed with frontotempoeral dementia in 2023; Emma just published her book about caregiving, The Unexpected Journey<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/bruce-willis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bruce Willis;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bruce Willis<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/emma-heming-willis-11800115\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Emma Heming Willis;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Emma Heming Willis<\/a>&#8216; daughters have found favorites among their father&#8217;s movies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In an interview with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/article\/14d44881-195f-4cbb-8fe6-39445c28cf0d?shareToken=5ece6b0691001df0df4b0295881733ad\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Times;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Times<\/a>, published Saturday, Sept. 13, Emma, 49, revealed that her and Bruce&#8217;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/bruce-willis-daughters-celebrate-their-dad-on-his-70th-birthday-11695976\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:youngest daughters;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">youngest daughters<\/a> Evelyn, 11, and Mabel, 13, are fond of the actor&#8217;s 2006 animated movie Over the Hedge and Moonrise Kingdom, his 2012 film with Wes Anderson. As Emma said, Evelyn loves watching Over the Hedge, in which Bruce, 70, voices a talking raccoon, while Mabel&#8217;s favorite film of his is Moonrise Kingdom, in which he portrays a police officer searching for two runaway children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIt\u2019s really hard to look back at the old movies,\u201d Emma admitted to the outlet three years after he <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/health\/bruce-willis-has-aphasia-stepping-away-from-acting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:retired from acting;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">retired from acting<\/a> due to receiving an aphasia diagnosis. The Willis family \u2014 Bruce <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/parents\/all-about-bruce-willis-daughters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:also shares;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">also shares<\/a> adult daughters Rumer, 37, Scout, 34, and Tallulah, 31, with ex-wife Demi Moore \u2014 announced that Bruce&#8217;s condition had progressed into <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/health\/bruce-willis-frontotemporal-dementia-ftd-diagnosis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:frontotemporal dementia (FTD);elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">frontotemporal dementia (FTD)<\/a> in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cOther times I get stuck in the iCloud, videos and pictures on our phones. But I walk away from it just feeling, ugh \u2014 like I can\u2019t believe it,&#8221; Emma added. &#8220;I can\u2019t believe Bruce has this disease. I can\u2019t believe what this disease has done to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Emma Heming Willis\/Instagram Bruce Willis, Emma Heming Willis with daughters Evelyn and Mabel\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/7kzI5nIa7dIgMQmN4bGUNQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTY0MDtoPTk2MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/people_218\/48598584127cc665d285d1ec29ffd3ab\"\/><\/div>\n<div style=\"max-height:none;overflow:visible\">\n<p>Emma Heming Willis\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p> Bruce Willis, Emma Heming Willis with daughters Evelyn and Mabel<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Emma spoke with The Times as she promotes her book <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/emma-heming-willis-new-book-the-unexpected-journey-excerpt-exclusive-11801839\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Unexpected Journey;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Unexpected Journey<\/a>, which was published on Sept. 9. The former model previously shared that the family had<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/why-emma-heming-willis-moved-bruce-willis-to-his-own-home-exclusive-11802141\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:moved Bruce to his own home;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> moved Bruce to his own home<\/a> near her house with Mabel and Evelyn in order to give Bruce a quiet, comfortable environment with around-the-clock care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As Emma told the outlet, their daughters sit on Bruce&#8217;s lap when they arrive home from school and like to play in his garden.\u00a0\u201cYou can see the tenderness of it. The girls don\u2019t need him to be this or do that,&#8221; she said. &#8220;They have really adapted to his disease and they know how to move around him. It\u2019s beautiful, but it\u2019s hard for them. They miss him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:PEOPLE's free daily newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Emma Heming Willis\/ Instagram Bruce Willis and wife Emma Heming with their daughters Mabel Ray Willis and Evelyn Penn Willis in June 2022.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/M.iEwQpKM0rluin6jJck3g--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTY0MDtoPTk2MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/people_218\/9614dfd294d4d7d4dfd868608c551025\"\/><\/div>\n<div style=\"max-height:none;overflow:visible\">\n<p>Emma Heming Willis\/ Instagram<\/p>\n<p> Bruce Willis and wife Emma Heming with their daughters Mabel Ray Willis and Evelyn Penn Willis in June 2022.<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Emma also said that she and Bruce have developed &#8220;our own language, our own way to be with each other,&#8221; years after she first noticed signs of his dementia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIt\u2019s just about sitting with him, walking with him, listening to him as he tries to verbalize in his own language. Hearing him, validating him,&#8221; she added. \u201cIt\u2019s hard. FTD is just an unkind disease \u2014 it constantly takes. Even when you think it can\u2019t take any more, it takes a little more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/bruce-willis-young-daughters-comfort-past-films-11809938\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:People;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">People<\/a><\/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 ca.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW Bruce Willis&#8217; wife Emma Heming Willis said in a new interview that their daughters Evelyn, 11, and Mabel, 13, love Bruce&#8217;s movies Over the Hedge and Moonrise Kingdom \u201cIt\u2019s really hard to look back at the old movies,\u201d Emma admitted of Bruce&#8217;s filmography Bruce retired from acting in 2022 and was diagnosed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2024046,"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":[25173],"tags":[39659,355075,372466,372465,372467,311288],"class_list":["post-2024045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-bruce-willis","tag-emma-heming","tag-evelyn-penn-willis","tag-mabel-ray-willis","tag-moonrise-kingdom","tag-wes-anderson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Bruce-Willis-Young-Daughters-Find-Comfort-in-His-Past-Films.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024045","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=2024045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2024046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}