Demi Moore shared a health update on her ex-husband Bruce Willis years after he was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
While accepting an award at the Hamptons International Film Festival in New York over the weekend, Moore, 61, revealed that the “Die Hard” star, 69, is in “stable” condition.
“You know, I’ve said this before. ‘An illness is an illness,'” Moore told the audience Sunday during a lively discussion, People magazine reported. “And I think you have to be in a state of real deep acceptance of what it is.”
The “Ghost” alum added, “But as far as where he’s at, he’s stable.”
Moore and Willis were married from 1987 to 2000 and have three children together: Rumer, Scout, and Tallulah. The Pulp Fiction star married again in 2009 to British model Emma Heming Willis, with whom he has two children, Mabel and Evelyn.
In March 2022, Willis’ family announced his retirement from acting after he was diagnosed with aphasia, which affects communication.
Bruce Willis and Demi Moore married in 1987 after only four months of dating.
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The family shared an update nearly a year later, revealing that Willis’ condition had progressed to frontotemporal dementia.
“We are going through this as a strong family unit, and we wanted to appeal to his fans because we know how much he means to you, as you do to him. As Bruce always says, ‘Live the life,’ and together we plan to do so,” they said in a joint statement to the Frontotemporal Degeneration Association.
Earlier this year, Hemming Willis made “stupid headlines” about the actor’s life after being diagnosed with aphasia, stating that they were “far from the truth”.
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“I just got clicked. ‘I’m walking around minding my own business and I just saw a headline about my family,'” his wife said in a video message on Instagram. “The headline basically says there’s no more joy in my husband. Now, I can tell you that is far from the truth.”
She then chided the unnamed outlet for “scaring people” with their incendiary statements.
“Stop scaring people into thinking that once they’re diagnosed with some kind of neurocognitive disease, they’re going to say, ‘That’s it.'” “It’s over,” Hemming-Willis added. “Let’s pack it in. There’s nothing else to see here, we’re done. No, it’s the exact opposite, okay?
