She had no idea that the situation had deteriorated to this point, which is why she was shocked when Demi Moore, returning from a vacation in Italy, visited her ex-husband Bruce Willis and found that he no longer recognized her.” devastated”. This was reported by Closer Weekly magazine, citing confidential information from an anonymous source. “Demi always stayed in touch with the children and with Bruce’s wife Emma Heming, but she never thought the illness would have become so serious. It’s as if Bruce’s memory of her “faded” in Demi’s absence, he realized he hadn’t really recognized her, and that destroyed her.” An understandable reaction, considering Moore spent thirteen years with the ” Die Hard star was married and they also have three grown daughters, Rumer, Scout and Tallulah.
As his own family announced via social media in February of this year, Willis suffers from an incurable form of frontotemporal dementia, a progressive disease that can cause severe cognitive impairment as well as slow movements, stiff joints, behavioral changes and mood swings. According to the insider, the actor instead recognizes his current wife and children and manages to “express joy” when Rumer visits him with his grandson Lou, although at times he can become “particularly aggressive” and his physical deterioration becomes more and more visible .
“Dementia is hard,” Heming said on the “Today” show last September. “It’s hard on the person diagnosed, it’s hard on the family too.” And in this case it’s no different for Bruce, me or our girls. It is difficult to know whether he is aware of his condition. When they say it’s a family disease, it really is.” The latest confirmation of how united the actor’s family is at this very sad moment for him came from his daughter Tallulah. “My father is still the same and I have learned that this is the best we can ask,” the girl admitted on the “Drew Barrymore Show”. I see love when I am with him, he is my father and he loves me which is really special.