Bruce Willis‘ wife is sharing intimate moments of his life as a family man ahead of the holidays.
In a series of Instagram stories posted on Sunday, Emma Heming shared family photos of the 69-year-old actor spending time with his two young daughters.
Among the photos was a black and white picture of Heming and Willis with Mabel, 12, and Evelyn, 10, which she captioned, “Them. Always.” In the photo, the couple are smiling as they lovingly look each other in the eyes, with their daughters sitting on their laps.
The other photos include Willis giving one of his daughters a golf lesson, and another shows him and one of his daughters riding the spinning teacups ride at Disneyland.
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Among the photos is a video of Willis sitting in a chair outdoors while yodeling, to which Heming added the caption, “Him. Always.”
“Yodel-o-whoo-whoo,” the former actor can be heard singing, adding, “All right, folks, this is …” before he started laughing, and the video cut off.
Willis was first diagnosed with aphasia in March 2022, with his family later announcing he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia or FTD. In an interview with Town & Country in October, Heming shared the early symptoms of his dementia were dismissed since he struggled with stuttering as a child.
“He had a severe stutter as a child,” she explained. “Bruce has always had a stutter, but he has been good at covering it up. As his language started changing, it [seemed like it] was just a part of a stutter, it was just Bruce.”
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According to the National Institute on Aging, FTD occurs as a “result of damage to neurons in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain,” and the symptoms include “unusual behaviors, emotional problems, trouble communicating, difficulty with work, or difficulty with walking.”
In addition to his two children with Heming, Willis also shares three adult daughters, Rumer, 36, Scout, 33, and Tallulah, 30, with his ex-wife, Demi Moore. The former couple finalized their divorce in 2000. They have remained good friends and co-parents.
“You know, I’ve said this before. The disease is what the disease is,” Moore told the crowd at the 2024 Hamptons International Film Festival, while accepting the career achievement in acting award, according to People magazine. “And I think you have to be in real deep acceptance of what that is. But for where he’s at, he is stable.”
She also shared insight on how she and the rest of the family have learned to work with his diagnosis in their interactions with him, explaining you have “to just meet them where they’re at,” because “when you’re holding on to what was, I think it’s a losing game.”
