"It's just so hard": Daughter Rumer misses her father, Bruce Willis:
More than three years have passed since Bruce Willis was diagnosed with dementia ...
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Rumer Willis discusses her father’s dementiaBruce Willis has been cared for by a team for about a year in a separate, accessible house near his family.
- Bruce Willis’s family announced publicly in February 2023 that he has frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
- In an Instagram video, Rumer Willis said the diagnosis had changed her life and that she missed an earlier version of her father.
- Because of her family history, she said she took an Alzheimer’s risk test that produced a rather average result indicating some, but not excessively high, risk.
- In an interview with People, she referred to genetically linked illnesses in her family, including dementia and breast cancer.
There are days that are just so hard. I try to focus on being there for him, the way he is now. The truth is: being strong means learning to cope with both at once.— Rumer Willis, in an Instagram video, explaining how her father’s dementia diagnosis has changed her life and how she is trying to be there for him.
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Key FactsRumer Willis describes Bruce Willis’s changed personality
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- In an interview, Rumer Willis said her father had become more tender and emotionally softer since being diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
- Rumer said she had previously underestimated how widespread the neurological condition was and now often hears from people with affected relatives.
- During an Instagram question-and-answer session in November 2025, she said Bruce Willis was different but still had a certain spark.
- Bruce Willis’s family first confirmed aphasia in 2022 and discussed FTD a year later, after which he has reportedly stayed out of the public eye.
Bruce is still very mobile. Bruce is in really great health overall, you know. It’s just his brain that is failing him… The language is going, and, you know, we’ve learned to adapt. And we have a way of communicating with him, which is just a… different way.— Emma Heming Willis; quoted in an interview with Diane Sawyer about Bruce Willis's frontotemporal dementia
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