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Bruce Willis' Wife Admits Moving The Actor Was One Of The 'Hardest Decisions' She's Ever Made

Emma Heming Willis and Bruce Willis in 2009Bruce Willis is living in a second, “safer” home away from his wife and kids to be with his caregivers 24/7, his wife told US broadcaster Diane Sawyer in a recent interview.“It was one of the hardest decisions that I’ve had to make so far,” Emma Heming Willis said during the interview. “But I knew first and foremost, Bruce would want that for our daughters. He would want them to be in a home that was more tailored to their needs, not his needs.”Bruce and Emma share daughters Mabel, 13, and Evelyn, 11, while he and his ex-wife, fellow actor Demi Moore, share daughters Rumer, 37, Scout, 34, and Tallulah, 31.In 2022, Bruce’s family, including Demi, issued a joint statement announcing that he was living with aphasia, which affects one’s ability to communicate, and that he would retire from acting.The next year, the family said Bruce had been diagnosed with dementia. In the ABC News special with Diane Sawyer, Emma gave an inside look at her husband’s experience with the disease, saying she moved him into a “safer” one-story home so he could be with his caregivers all the time.She said she visits him at the second home every morning for breakfast and every night.“It is a house that is filled with love and warmth and care and laughter,” Emma said.Bruce has frontotemporal dementia, which causes a person to lose their words. The 70-year-old is still walking and seemingly unaware of his diagnosis, his wife said.She claimed: “Bruce is in really great health overall. It’s just his brain that is failing him.“The language is going, and we’ve learned to adapt. And we have a way of communicating with him, which is just a different way.”Bruce Willis and wife Emma Heming Willis in 2019Emma said that she first started noticing a difference in Bruce when he became quieter and would “melt a little bit” when the family got together.She said he stopped wanting to take their two daughters to school, and then his childhood stutter returned. Emma said she had found the experience “alarming and scary”.When doctors diagnosed Bruce with frontotemporal dementia a few years ago and told Emma there was no cure, she was “panicked.” “I just remember hearing it and just not hearing anything else,” she said.She shared that she now struggles to remember what the actor was like before his diagnosis.“It’s also even really hard for me today to go back in time to remember even the fun, because I’m so caught up in today, of what today looks like and walking this journey with him today, that I can’t remember,” she said. “I just have a really hard time remembering who he was.”But she said she still sees moments of the old Bruce.“It’s his laugh, right? Like, he has such a hearty laugh,” she said. “And, you know, sometimes you’ll see that twinkle in his eye, or that smirk, and, you know, I just get transported.”Emma wrote the book The Unexpected Journey: Finding Strength, Hope And Yourself On The Caregiving Path about caring for Bruce, which she said she hopes can give other caregivers a roadmap.READ MORE:Bruce Willis' Daughter Shares Heartwarming Birthday Video Of Him Dancing With Ex-Wife Demi MooreBruce Willis' Daughter Tallulah Responds To Criticism Over Instagram Posts Featuring Her DadBruce Willis' Wife Emma Shares Heartbreaking Admission In Emotional Father's Day Tribute

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