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For husband Emma Heming Willis Bruce Willis‘The signs of early dementia are not immediate dangers because there is something wrong with his health.
Instead, Emma revealed in an interview peoplea subtle change in his behavior led her to believe that there was something wrong with their marriage.
Bruce was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in November 2022, as Emma explained: “FTD doesn’t scream, it’s whispering.” He’s been formally diagnosed for a long time and she notices something wrong.
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Emma Heming Willis said Bruce Willis’ early signs of dementia led her to believe something was wrong with their marriage. (Jeff Vespa/VF14/Wireimage)
“It was very grey to know where Bruce was parked and where his disease started,” she said. “I started to notice his stuttering started to come back, but I never thought it was a million years ago. Symptoms of FTD. The conversation no longer really remains consistent and our relationship begins to change. It’s hard for me to help out my reasons and what happened. ”
Emma, who wrote a book for her companions, called “Accidental Journey: Finding Power, Hope, and Self on the Road to Care, admitted to being frustrated by their growing communication problems, and Bruce seemed to get rid of her way.
“I thought what I was doing in marriage didn’t work anymore,” she said. “It’s like you hit your head against a brick wall. You’re like, ‘Where is the communication barrier? What’s going on inside? Our relationship? ”
When Bruce finally got diagnosed, the frustration immediately disappeared.
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Emma Heming and Bruce Willis have been married since 2009. (James Devaney/GC image)
Emma said, “Understand, ‘Oh, well, it’s not my husband, it’s the disease that is absorbing his brain.” “Once you hear it, I’m gentle.”
She also people The FTD has three different subtypes – “One affects behavior, one affects speech, and then the other affects movement.”
The type of blues involves speech. according to Frontotemporal Degeneration Association. Bruce’s specific diagnosis is the main progressive aphasia, “which is characterized by a gradual loss of ability to speak, read, write, and understand what others are saying.”
Bruce Willis retires in 2022. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
Emma said in a recent interview with Diane Sawyer: “The language is going on, and we have already said, we have already said, we have already said, we have already said, we have already said, we have already said, “The language is going on, and we have already had Learned to adapt“- They have been able to find something new.
“I feel like our love story will only grow and develop,” she said. “It sounds like Woo-woo, but it’s just a more cellular level. I’m so grateful that he’s here so much, and it’s part of our day to day.”
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She continued: “It means a lot to be able to meet him and enjoy the meaning of this time with him…Bruce is very cute and wonderful inside him. He didn’t think of what happened yesterday or what happened in the future.
Emma and Bruce met in 2007 and got married two years later. They welcomed their first daughter, Mabel in 2012 and their second daughter, Evelyn in 2014.
Bruce Willis has a strong support network among his wife Emma, ex-wife Demi Moore and his five daughters. (Emma Heming Willis/Instagram)
Bruce also shared three daughters with his ex-wife Demi Moore: 37-year-old scout Rumer, 34, and 31-year-old Tallulah.
Still, even though she might be looking for Emma today, she maintains a strong connection with her husband.
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“Sometimes, love doesn’t need words,” she explained. “I could sit there with Bruce, we looked at each other, we smiled and it was more important to me than anything else.”
