Bruce Willis' daughter shares key to happiness amid dad's dementia decline

23 November 2023 , 18:06

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Bruce Willis' daughter shares key to happiness amid dad's dementia decline

Rumer Willis took to her Instagram Stories to share a moving quote amid her father Bruce Willis ' dementia decline.

In February, his family announced that the 68-year-old Hollywood actor had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), which causes changes to personality, behaviour, language and movement. Amid the diagnosis, Rumer took to social media to share her "secret to happiness."

She shared a quote which read: "A secret to happiness is to be as weird as you like and the wrong people will leave the party but the right ones will join the dance." Similarly, Rumer's younger sister Tallulah, 29, shared the snap to her story, linking to a collection of photos she posted in celebration of the actor’s 68th birthday.

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Rumer spoke about her happiness (rumerwillis/Instagram)

She shared a sweet message (Getty Images)

“He’s a spaceman, a hero with a badge, a sassy detective with unparalleled banter - and it’s been a privilege to witness all these different characters enlived, and engraved into history because of his innate sprit and soul,” she had written. She went on to remember how great of a father the actor has been to her.

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“And I love this Jersey boy, who combed my hair in baths, and always made sure I layed a towel down before eating on his bed, and is known far and wide as the Corn Cake King to our safe circle of intimates,” she said, before eventually signing off with a loving message.

Last month, Moonlighting creator and close friend of Bruce, Glenn Gordon Caron, described him as an “extraordinary person” although said he was now losing his ability to speak. “Bruce’s disease is a progressive disease, so I was able to communicate with him, before the disease rendered him as incommunicative as he is now,” he told The New York Post.

“Really missing my papa today,” Rumer wrote on social media

Glenn remembered how his friend “adored waking up every morning and trying to live life to its fullest,” before reflecting sadly on how much his friend’s disease has seen him decline.

“When you’re with him you know that he’s Bruce and you’re grateful that he’s there,” he noted, “but the joie de vivre is gone.”

Lauren Gordon