Bruce Willis’ Daughter Shares Update on Actor’s Health: ‘He’s Great’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Bruce Willis’ daughter Rumer Willis just shared an update about her dad’s health and her experience supporting him amid his dementia battle.
“He’s great. Yeah, yeah, doing OK. Thank you so much for asking,” Rumer told Fox News.
“I think, for me, through this experience, what’s been so incredible is my dad is so beloved, and that’s been so evident in the transparency with which we’ve been sharing,” she added. “And I think if there’s any way sharing our experience brings hope—whatever comes forward as a family—that can have an effect and bring any sort of hope, comfort to someone else experiencing that, then to me, that’s…everything.”
Movieguide® previously reported on Willis’ diagnosis:
“Since we announced Bruce’s diagnosis of aphasia in spring 2022, Bruce’s condition has progressed and we now have a more specific diagnosis: frontotemporal dementia (known as FTD). Unfortunately, challenges with communication are just one symptom of the disease Bruce faces. While this is painful, it is a relief to finally have a clear diagnosis.”
Symptoms of FTD include unusual behaviors, emotional problems and difficulty communicating, working and walking.
On her father’s birthday, Rumer shared a sweet message celebrating her dad.
“Oh Daddio, to be loved by you is such a gift,” she wrote on Instagram. “You are the funniest, most tender, charming, out of this world silly talented and magical papa. Looking through these photos this morning I am just filled with the deepest gratitude that we chose to spend this life together.”
She continued, “I am your first baby and man sometimes I wish I could be tiny enough to just cozy up on your chest again and laugh and cuddle you. I love you so deep in my bones I don’t know how my muscles hold them. You are the greatest papa I could ever hope for. Thank you for your generosity, your silliness and heart.”
As she ventures into the movie industry, Rumer is sharing some of the most valuable things she learned from watching her parents on different film sets.
“I feel like what I learned from them was just by watching. I feel like being on set, one of the biggest things I would say, just by proxy, you treat everyone with the same amount of respect, whether you’re in front of the camera, behind the camera, from the littlest job,” she said.
“Everyone is there, and their participation and effort and energy they’re putting in is just as important as what you’re doing,” she continued.
Movieguide® previously gave an update on Willis’ condition:
Bruce Willis is now largely “incommunicative” as his frontotemporal dementia progresses, according to a friend.
“My sense is the first one to three minutes he knows who I am,” MOONLIGHTING creator Glenn Gordon Caron said of the actor. “He’s not totally verbal; he used to be a voracious reader—he didn’t want anyone to know that—and he’s not reading now. All those language skills are no longer available to him, and yet he’s still Bruce.”
Caron shared that he has “tried very hard to stay in [Willis’] life” and visits the actor on a monthly basis.
“He’s an extraordinary person,” he continued. “The thing that makes [his disease] so mind-blowing is [that] if you’ve ever spent time with Bruce Willis, there is no one who had any more joie de vivre than he. He loved life and…just adored waking up every morning and trying to live life to its fullest. So the idea that he now sees life through a screen door, if you will, makes very little sense. He’s really an amazing guy.”
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