Bruce Willis' wife shares touching snap of actor laughing amid dementia decline
Emma Heming Willis shared a throwback photo of her husband Bruce Willis laughing as she took a trip down memory lane amid his worsening dementia battle.
The model posted the touching update to her Instagram story as she reminisced back to the night they celebrated the Hollywood star's 60th birthday. Emma, 45, uploaded the photo-booth snaps to her Story on the app where she was seen wrapping her arms around him and kissing him on the cheek as he laughed. The photos were printed with the caption "BEE DUB's 60th."
Emma gushed over her husband as she wrote: "Love memory lane pictures. This was a fun-filled night for Bruce's 60th back in 2015. And side note, what a babe." Emmas post comes as his ex-wife Demi Moore has recently opened up about the struggle the family are facing as Bruce's condition worsens.
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Emma shared the touching throwback on InstagramThe actress encouraged relatives of those suffering from dementia to "let go of" the person their loved one used to be to ease the pain of their suffering. Demi, 61, was left devastated when Bruce was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia last year having remained close to him and his current wife Emma.
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Bruce was originally diagnosed as suffering from aphasia in march 2022 then in February 2023 his rare dementia diagnosis was confirmed. Demi opened up about life since Bruce's diagnosis while appearing on Andy Cohen's SiriusXM show Radio Andy. The Ghost actress said she has learned to "take in the joy and the love" for Bruce as she knows him now rather than dwelling on who he was.
Emma is caring for husband Bruce amid his illness (Getty Images)
The touching post looked back on happier times (@emmahemmingwillis/Instagram)When asked "What message do you have for people out there who have family members who have dementia? Who are maybe caring for them or in their lives?" Demi gave a touching reply saying: "I think the most important thing I could share is just to meet them where they're at.
"When you let go of who they've been or who you think they [should be], or who even you would like them to be, you can then really stay in the present and take in the joy and the love that is present and there for all that they are, not all that they're not."
Meawhile Bruce's friend and creator of Bruce's hit 1980s comedy series Moonlighting, Glen Gordon Caron, gave an insight into his visits to see the ailing actor. Talking to the New York Post he said: "My sense is the first one to three minutes he knows who I am he's not totally verbal.
Demi opened up about Bruce's worsening condition"He used to be a voracious reader - he didn't want anyone to know that - and he's not reading now, all those language skills are no longer available to him, and yet he's still Bruce. When you're with him you know that he's Bruce and you're grateful that he's there, but the joie de vivre is gone."
Glen also it has been "mind-blowing" to see how much Bruce has changed adding that he "loved life and… just adored waking up every morning and trying to live life to its fullest."
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