Tallulah, daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, says she long denied her father’s illness, triggering a self-defense mechanism that didn’t allow her to immediately understand how serious her parents’ health condition was.
Tallulah, daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, admits she has long been in denial about her father’s illness, the actor’s family announced in early 2023. Tallulah said she unconsciously activated a self-defense mechanism that didn’t allow her to immediately understand how serious the parent’s health condition was. As you know, William suffers from it frontal dementiaan illness that forced him to retire from the stage.
The Story of Tallulah Willis
“My family announced in early 2022 that Bruce Willis suffered from aphasia, an inability caused by the brain to speak or understand language. Then, earlier this year, we discovered that the symptom was a feature of frontotemporal dementia, a progressive neurological disease. But I knew something was wrong for a long time,” Tallulah said in an interview with Vogue.
It all started with a kind of vague indifference on my father’s part that we in the family attributed to the hearing loss. We said to ourselves, “Die hard, butchered daddy’s ears.”
Bruce Willis’ Daughter: ‘I Thought He Was Just Disinterested’
Tallulah says she even believed, at least early on in her father’s illness, that Willis was merely disinterested in the children he had with ex-wife Demi Moore in favor of the children with his partner Emma Heming: “Later that.” The lack of response from her worsened and at times I took it personally. He had two children with my stepmother, Emma Heming Willis, and I thought he had lost interest in me. Though it was the furthest thing from the truth, my teenage brain racked itself with flawed logic: I’m not beautiful enough for my mother, I’m not interesting enough for my father. I admit I was in denial about what happened to Bruce and I’m not proud of it.