A little less than a year ago, Emma Heming Willis publicly announced that her husband, the actor Bruce Willis, suffered from frontotemporal dementia, a disease that was diagnosed in the spring of 2022 and that has been worsening over time. Now, the one who was his wife for 13 years, Demi Moore, has found that his health is worse than he thought. As published exclusively by the magazine ‘Closer Weekly’the protagonist of the ‘Die Hard’ saga He was unable to recognize Moore.during a visit that the actress made last summer.

According to the sources consulted by the aforementioned magazine, although Moore has maintained contact with Willis’ family, with whom he had three children, “I didn’t know it had gone so downhill.“. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) mainly affects the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, as Miguel Baquero, an expert neurologist in Cognitive Disorders at Hospital La Fe in Valencia, explains to laSexta; lobes that atrophy. The symptoms of this disease are different, and range from dramatic changes in personality —affected people may become socially inappropriate, impulsive, or emotionally indifferent—while others they lose the ability to use language properly.

This degenerative disease can cause severe cognitive impairment. The sources consulted by the magazine point out that by not being present on a day-to-day basis, the figure of Demi Moore “disappeared” from Willis’s head. “From my [Moore] “He realized that he didn’t really recognize her,” they indicated, which left the actress devastated. However, he still recognizes both his wife and his children, and still expresses “joy” when she sees her eldest daughter, Rumer, with her baby, the actor’s first granddaughter.

On other occasions, however, Bruce Willis seems to be “aggressive”, at the same time that his physical condition is worsening. All of this is part of the symptoms of the disease he suffers from, as his wife already expressed when announcing the diagnosis, pointing out that the difficulties in communication, which had already been notable, were “just one more symptom” of dementia.

“Dementia is hard,” Emma herself noted recently on a television program. It is, she pointed out, for the person diagnosed, but also for the family. “When they say dementia is a family disease, it really isn’t,” she said. When asked if Bruce Willis was aware of his own illness, Emma Heming Willis said it was “difficult” to know. Bruce Willis (68 years old) He is one of the best-known actors in the film industry. In addition to his brilliant performance as John McClane in ‘Die Hard’, he has appeared in dozens of films, from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to ‘Detective Knight: Redemption’, his latest film, released in 2022.