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Emma Heming Willis Gives Latest Update on Bruce Willis’s Health and Life with Dementia
During an appearance on the Today Show on December 2, Emma Heming Willis shared an update on her husband Bruce Willis, saying he is currently “doing really well.”
“It’s such a loaded question. It’s hard to answer,” Heming Willis explained. “But honestly, today, great. He is surrounded by love and care, and he is doing really well with an unkind disease.”
“For us, now, our communication is different, but our connection is very much intact,” she added.
Heming Willis has been candid about caring for Willis, who was diagnosed in 2023 with frontotemporal dementia, a neurodegenerative disease that affects both the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain.
To cope, Heming Willis relies on support from fellow caregivers. “My fellow caregivers were absolutely the first ones I talked to,” she told Savannah Guthrie. “The support is… I don’t know what I would do without it, to be honest.”
She has also drawn strength from observing how military spouses and families face challenges with positivity. “There is like an instant sort of comfort level that I have never really received anywhere else,” Heming Willis said. “We really do truly understand what each one is going through.”
“And in a world today that feels so disconnected, there is something truly meaningful and beautiful about a connection between a caregiver and a caregiver,” she added.
This interview follows her discussion with People about how the holidays look for her family now that her husband no longer lives at home.
“It’s joyous. It’s just different,” she said. “Bruce loved Christmas, and we love celebrating it with him. It just looks different, so we’ve kind of adapted to that.”
“You have to learn and adapt and make new memories, bring in the same traditions that you had before,” she continued. “Life goes on. It just goes on. Dementia is hard, but there is still joy in it. I think it’s important that we don’t paint such a negative picture around dementia. We are still laughing. There is still joy. It just looks different.”
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