Daughter of Bruce Willis Opens Up About Father’s Battle with Frontotemporal Dementia

He confesses, admits his fragility and difficulties in accepting his father’s illness, the Hollywood actor Bruce Willis. Tallulah Willis, 29, one of the daughters of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, wrote an intense letter/editorial published by Vogue, to recount the process that led to the diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia for the actor of Die Hard, Pulp Fiction, The Sixth Sense and many others. A disease that leaves no way out and for which the actor had to leave the scene. A retirement announced by the family in March 2022.

Tallulah said she has long denied the actor’s deteriorating health. “I knew something was wrong. It all started with a vague lack of reaction – says Tallulah – which the family attributed to hearing loss: “Speak up! Die Hard he messed with daddy’s ears,” the actor said». When the actor’s health deteriorated, Willis’ daughter thought her father was “losing interest” in her. “My teenage mind tortured itself with wrong conclusions: I’m not beautiful enough for my mother, I’m not interesting enough for my father.” It was difficult for the girl to come to terms with the decline of her father, also because at that time she suffered from anorexia, caused by depression and alcohol addiction. “I admit that I have faced Papa Bruce’s decline in recent years with a willingness to avoid it that I am not proud of, but the truth is that even I was too sick to handle it”.

“Every time I go to my father’s house – he explains – I dive into tons of photos to treasure things I didn’t pay attention to. I’ve saved every message he’s left on my voicemail, I think I’m trying to document, build a story for the day he’s gone to remind me of him. Now he still recognizes me and lights up when he sees me.’ A bitter reflection. Tallulah knows there will come a time when Bruce won’t recognize her anymore, he won’t be able to share her joys, he won’t be able to walk her down the aisle one day. In 2021 she was invited to a wedding and she accomplished many things: «I realized she-she writes she-she that that moment would never exist for me. It was devastating, I got up from the table and went away crying». Now Willis’ daughter has learned to appreciate small daily moments that she shares with her dad: “I enjoy that moment-he concludes-I hold my father’s hand and I feel that it is a wonderful thing”.