{"id":2462390,"date":"2026-06-16T17:06:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2462390"},"modified":"2026-06-16T17:06:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:06:52","slug":"bruce-willis-wife-addresses-misconception-about-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bruce-willis-wife-addresses-misconception-about-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Willis’ Wife Addresses ‘Misconception’ About Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bruce Willis<\/strong>\u2019<\/a> wife, Emma Heming Willis<\/strong><\/a>, is shedding light on her husband\u2019s frontotemporal dementia diagnosis.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s called frontotemporal dementia. Or FTD for short. It affects the frontal lobe and the temporal lobes. This is executive decision, just your every day sort of functioning, language [and] compression. That\u2019s in your temporal lobe. The variant, because there\u2019s three different types of variants of FTD, the one that Bruce has affects language,\u201d Heming, 47, explained on the Monday, June 15 episode of the \u201cBossticks\u201d podcast. \u201cBut there\u2019s another variant that will affect behavior and another one that could affect movement. So here\u2019s three different variants to FTD.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked if Willis\u2019 diagnosis affects his memory, Heming replied, \u201cNo it doesn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a different part of the brain,\u201d she continued. \u201cSo when people say, \u2018Oh, does he remember who you are?\u2019 Well, he does because he doesn\u2019t have Alzheimer\u2019s, he has FTD. I think that\u2019s a very common misconception that, when you think of dementia, we think of memory loss.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tEmma Heming Willis shared a new update about her husband Bruce Willis\u2019 battle with frontotemporal dementia. Heming Willis, 45, discussed the disease on the Monday, September 25, episode of Today in honor of World Frontotemporal Dementia Awareness Week, revealing it\u2019s \u201chard to know\u201d whether Willis, 68, is aware of his dementia. \u201cWhat I\u2019m learning is [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Willis\u2019 family shared in March 2022 that he had been diagnosed with the language disorder aphasia. It was later shared that he was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.<\/p>\n

Heming, who shares two children with Willis, explained that she can feel like she\u2019s facing an \u201cambiguous loss\u201d while being a caretaker to her husband. (Heming and Willis, who tied the knot in 2009<\/a>, welcomed daughters Mabel and Evelyn in 2012 and 2014, respectively. Willis is also the dad of daughters<\/a> Rumer, 37, Scout, 34, and Tallulah, 32, with ex-wife Demi Moore<\/strong>.)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s grieving someone who is alive,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd that is what many people who are caregivers to someone with dementia experience, because your person is there physically but maybe not mentally or emotionally.\u201d<\/p>\n

Heming explained that all forms of dementia \u201ctake and they take and they take, sometimes very slowly and you are grieving different losses all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are consistently in grief. I\u2019ve just learned how to navigate it,\u201d she said. \u201cMaybe I\u2019m a little bit more used to it at this point than I was early on. But yeah, you are just sitting with it and moving alongside of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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