John McClane is no more. The invincible hero of Die Hard has been defeated by dementia. Demi Moore there is no reason for it. Emma Heming, his current wife, is devastated. The dismayed daughters. Bruce Willis it’s like closing yourself in. His health is deteriorating day by day. He no longer recognizes his ex-wife Demi Moore, but not even the mother. And he became more aggressive. The Hollywood star, affected by senile frontotemporal dementia, diagnosed in early 2023, would almost no longer be able to recognize anyone. A source told Closer.
Bruce Willis is getting worse and worse and the illness is making it increasingly difficult for him to communicate with his family
October 13, 2023
Demi Moore, Since she was always close to her ex-husband as he battled the disease, she visited him after a trip to Italy. But when the two ex-partners met, he did not recognize her as the woman to whom he had been married for thirteen years and the mother of their three daughters. Rumer, Scout and Tallulah. “Demi has always kept in touch with Bruce’s current wife, Emma Heming. But she didn’t know her ex-husband was in such bad shape,” the source told the newspaper. While daughter Tallulah, 29, opened up about her dad on Wednesday’s episode of The Drew Barrymore Show. When Barrymore asked the star’s youngest daughter why her family wanted to share her father’s diagnosis with the outside world, she replied: “On the one hand, that’s who we are as a family, but it’s also very important for us to raise awareness about FTD.” …”. Furthermore, the young actress said: “A lot of the time I spend with him now is making music and just sitting in this loving energy.” It’s really special.
There frontotemporal dementia It is a disease that causes progressive cognitive deterioration, but also personality changes and mood swings. The memory of it Bruce Willis has from Demi Moore “It’s faded,” the source stressed. “Demi understood that he did not recognize her.” In reality, the deterioration of the actor’s condition is not surprising. In September Emma HemingIn an intervention on the Today Show, she explained that it was difficult to know whether her husband was aware of his illness or not: “Dementia is a difficult disease. It is difficult for the person who is diagnosed, but also for the entire family. When they say it’s a family illness, it really is.” Just a month ago, the actor’s friend, Glenn Gordon Carontold the New York Post that the conditions of Bruce Willis they are getting worse and worse: “He is losing the ability to speak and the joy of life – adds – when you are with him you know it is Bruce and you are grateful that he is there.”
Willis, the star of action comedies, debuted in the early 1980s in the television series alongside Cybill Shepherd and was immediately popular with audiences. The role that made him a star, however, was John McClane in the film The Crystal Trap (1988), the first chapter in the Die Hard film series, which lasted 25 years and produced five films. After his participation in Pulp Fiction directed by Quentin Tarantino, where he played the boxer Butch Coolidge, engaged to Maria de Medeiros, and protagonist of the famous clock sequence, Willis became famous for other roles that are enshrined in the collective memory. Tarantino himself has stated that he would like to entrust his friend with a small role in his latest film.
Between the mid-90s and early 2000s, he starred in Robert Zemeckis’ Death Becomes Her (1992), The Last Boy Scout (1991) and Army of the 12 Monkeys (1995), where he played prisoner James Cole played, “Still Alive – Last Man”. Standing (1996), The Fifth Element (1997) directed by Luc Besson, Armageddon (1998), The Sixth Sense (1999), the FBI Saga: Witness Protection (2000-2002) and Sin City (2005) by Robert Rodriguez. In the last few years before the stop and despite the pandemic, the actor made many films, often in small or small roles. Willis has won two Emmys and a Golden Globe.