Bruce Willis suffers from dementia and his health has worsened

The actor Bruce Williswho retired last year due to suffering from aphasia, a language disorder, has received a definitive medical diagnosis and suffers from a type of dementia that has caused his health to worsen, his family reported Thursday.

“Although it is painful, it is a relief to finally have a clear diagnosis: frontotemporal dementia”reads the official statement released by his family this Thursday through the website of the Frontotemporal Degeneration Association and the Instagram account of Rummer Willis, eldest daughter of the actor and actress Demi Moore.

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) affects the frontal lobe of the brain and causes changes in behavior, as well as impairing speech.

“FTD is a cruel disease. (…) Unfortunately, communication problems are only one of the symptoms of the disease that Bruce suffers ”, adds the text attributed to his wife Emma Hemming Willis, his ex-wife Demi Moore and their children Rumer, Scout, Tallulah, Mabel and Evelyn.

The news comes almost a year after the actor from Hard to Kill announced his retirement due to an initial diagnosis of aphasia, which shocked his fellow professionals.

As explained by the American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA), aphasia is considered a language disorder that is caused by brain injury and affects language through expression and comprehension. In addition, it can manifest suddenly.

For almost four decades Willis has starred in numerous hits starting with “Die Hard” (1988) and its sequels and other titles such as “Armageddon” (1998) or “The Sixth Sense” (2001). He has won a Golden Globe – he has been nominated five times for those awards – and an Emmy from three nominations.

In recent years, he had substantially reduced his projects. “Motherless Brooklyn” and “Glass”, both 2019 films, were the last two high-budget projects in which he took on a leading role.

Source: EFE