{"id":2254697,"date":"2026-01-28T16:19:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2254697"},"modified":"2026-01-28T16:19:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:19:23","slug":"bruce-willis-doesnt-know-he-has-dementia-and-still-recognizes-his-family-says-wife-he-never-connected-the-dots-that-he-had-this-disease-and-im-happy-abou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bruce-willis-doesnt-know-he-has-dementia-and-still-recognizes-his-family-says-wife-he-never-connected-the-dots-that-he-had-this-disease-and-im-happy-abou\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Willis \u2018Doesn\u2019t Know\u2019 He Has Dementia and Still Recognizes His Family, Says Wife: \u2018He Never Connected the Dots That He Had This Disease and I\u2019m Happy About That\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000246\/\">Bruce Willis<\/a> is not aware of his frontotemporal dementia diagnosis, his wife <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1081406\/\">Emma Heming Willis<\/a> revealed during an interview on \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0419967\/\">The Unexpected Journey<\/a>\u201d podcast (via TMZ).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think they think this is their normal,\u201d she explained. \u201cThere is this term, this neurological condition, that comes with Ftd and other types of dementia that\u2019s called anosognosia, where your brain can\u2019t identify what is happening to it. Where people think this might be denial, like where they don\u2019t want to go to the doctor because \u2018I\u2019m fine.\u2019 It\u2019s actually\u2026 this is the anosognosia that comes into play\u2026 Bruce never tapped in. He never connected the dots that he had this disease. I\u2019m really happy about that. I\u2019m really happy he doesn\u2019t know about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The actor\u2019s wife continued. \u201cHe is still very much present in his body\u2026 when someone says to me, \u2018Does&#8230;<\/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.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Willis is not aware of his frontotemporal dementia diagnosis, his wife Emma Heming Willis revealed during an interview on \u201cThe Unexpected Journey\u201d podcast (via TMZ). \u201cI think they think this is their normal,\u201d she explained. \u201cThere is this term, this neurological condition, that comes with Ftd and other types of dementia that\u2019s called anosognosia, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2254698,"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":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2254697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Bruce-Willis-\u2018Doesnt-Know-He-Has-Dementia-and-Still-Recognizes.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254697","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=2254697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2254699,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254697\/revisions\/2254699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2254698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}