“As painful as it is, it’s a relief to finally have a clear diagnosis in hand. Frontotemporal dementia is a cruel disease that many of us have heard of, and it can affect anyone. There is no cure for it today. This is a reality that we hope will change in the coming years,” the family said in a statement.
Declaration the family posted on the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD) website and the signatories are Willis’ wife Emma, ex-wife and actress Demi Moore and the actor’s five children.
Last March, Willis announced that he was retiring from acting for health reasons. He became ill with aphasia, a disease in which, as a result of damage to certain areas of the brain, a person loses the ability to speak and understand speech to a certain extent.
Frontotemporal dementia
It is a degenerative disease of the brain, the frontal lobe is affected. It manifests itself in changes in a person’s behavior and character. The patient notices that he is changing, but he does not care. He does not attach importance to it. People with this disease are reckless and are not interested in solving serious life situations, including, for example, personal hygiene. For example, they do not care that they did not pass the neurological tests, according to the server alzheimer.cz.
Patients often behave socially inappropriately, tactlessly, and are self-centered. They also tend to be distracted or, on the contrary, apathetic. They perceive their imminent changes in behavior as intentional.
People diagnosed with this type of dementia have an average life expectancy of seven to 13 years, according to the association. In the United States, FTD affects between 50,000 and 60,000 people and accounts for about ten percent of all dementia cases.
Until last year, Willis was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood. He rose to fame in the 1988 Christmas classic Deadly Trap, where he played detective John McClane and made him an action hero. Thanks to the great success, Willis successively shot four more Deathtrap parts.
He also starred in the cult film Pulp Fiction: Tales from the Underworld from 1994, where he played the role of boxer Butch Coolidge.
He then surprised critics in 1999 with the role of child psychiatrist Malcolm Crowe in the mysterious The Sixth Sense. However, he did not get a similar role.
The directors mainly cast him in the role of a tough guy in the science fiction 12 Monkeys (1995), in The Fifth Element (1997) or in Sin City (2005).
During his rich career, he was awarded a Golden Globe and an Emmy, but he did not reach the most prestigious film award, the Oscar.
At the end of his career, Willis also became known as the protagonist of low-budget films, due to which the organizers of the Golden Raspberry Award, awarded for the worst film achievements of the year, created a special category just for him.
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