Bruce Willis: “difficult to know” whether the actor is aware of his illness, confides his wife

Painful news comes to us from Bruce Willis, thanks to his wife Emma Heming. At 68, the actor, an iconic face of Hollywood, suffers from aphasia, a neurodegenerative disease linked to Alzheimer’s.

Very committed to educational work on this irreversible health problem, Emma Heming was a guest on the show Today ON NBC this Monday 25 September, thus inaugurating the World Frontotemporal Dementia Awareness Week. She took the opportunity to take stock of her husband’s health.

“A family disease”

Last March, Bruce Willis’ family announced on social networks that the actor would end his career due to his illness. A year later, his wife confided: “What I’m finding is that dementia is difficult.”explaining that the disease “It’s feeling for the person diagnosed, as much as for the family. »

When the journalist asked him if Bruce Willis was aware of his poor health, the 45-year-old model replied that he could not comment. “It’s hard to say. It’s hard to know »he admitted with barely concealed emotion.

“A Blessing and a Curse”

Since the announcement of Bruce Willis’ illness, his family has always insisted on the need to raise public awareness and initiate further research into frontotemporal degeneration. During the show, Emma Heming returned to the importance of knowing about her husband’s illness, even describing her diagnosis as “blessing” :

“I think it was both a blessing and a curse [de savoir de quoi souffre Bruce Willis]. This doesn’t make it any less painful, but accepting and find out what happens to Bruce it makes things a little easier.

Caused by damage to the areas of the brain that control language, this disorder refers a partial or total loss of the ability to express oneself or understand written or spoken language. People who suffer from it may present themselves memory problems, difficulty speaking or moving. Very busy, Emma Heming dedicates much of her Instagram account to raising awareness of the disease.