Bruce Willis’ wife, Emma Heming Willis, spoke to NBC’s Today show about the actor’s condition. “Dementia is difficult,” she said, although she clarified that she did not know whether or not her husband was aware of his condition.

“It’s hard to say,” she admitted to host Hoda Kotb. Bruce Willis’ family announced in February 2023 that the actor suffers from frontotemporal dementia. Unlike Alzheimer’s disease, this form of cognitive degeneration affects memory less and more language, behavior and movement control. This is the most common form of dementia in people under the age of 65, the CHU de Québec states on its website.

“Dementia is hard,” Emma Heming Willis said. It’s hard for the person diagnosed. It’s hard for the family. It’s no different for Bruce, myself or our daughters. »Bruce Willis ended his career and withdrew from public life due to his aphasia, his family announced in the winter of 2022. A year later, his loved ones made public a diagnosis of dementia.