2023-11-08 21:28:00
(CNN) — Bruce Willis’ daughter Tallulah Willis shared an update on her father’s health after the “Die Hard” actor was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) earlier this year.
“He has a really aggressive cognitive disease, a form of dementia that is very rare,” Tallulah noted on Wednesday’s episode of the “Drew Barrymore Show.” And he added: “He is the same, which I think, in that sense, I have learned is the best that can be expected.”
Tallulah is the youngest daughter of Willis and actress Demi Moore, who were married from 1987 to 2000. They are also parents to Tallulah’s older sisters, Scout and Rumer Willis. In 2009, Willis married Emma Heming and they have two young daughters.
Bruce Willis’ family – including Heming, Moore and his five daughters – has regularly reported on the actor’s health, after sharing the FTD diagnosis in a statement in February.
Being open about Willis’ progress is “important,” Tallulah said Wednesday, noting that her family’s goal is to “spread awareness about FTD.”
“If we can take something that we’re struggling with as a family, individually, to help other people, to turn it around, to do something beautiful about it, that’s really special to us,” she explained.
According to the Mayo Clinic, FTD is a “general term for a group of brain disorders that primarily affect the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. These areas of the brain are generally associated with personality, behavior, and language.”
Last month, Glenn Gordon Caron, a friend of Bruce Willis and collaborator on “Moonlighting,” told the New York Post that the actor doesn’t speak, adding that “all those language skills are no longer available to him, and yet he’s still Bruce.” “.
This week, Tallulah said that “a big part” of the way she spends time with her father now is “playing music, and just sitting in this energy of love.”
“I see love when I’m with him,” she later added. “And he’s my dad, and he loves me, which is really special.”
1699499244
#Bruce #Willis #health #daughter #Tallulah #shares #update