Bruce Willis frontotemporal dementia decline, Digi Mart USA News: Bruce Willis “has declined a lot mentally” and is “living in his own world” three years after his frontotemporal dementia (FTD) diagnosis, according to a new report. The account comes from a source who spoke to the Daily Mail on Sunday.
“Sometimes he looks like a baby who is staring at an object with curiosity, just taking it in,” the source said. “But if you look at him, he appears like a healthy middle-aged man.” The insider added that the 71-year-old is unaware of his own mental decline.
“He knows his life is different, but he doesn’t think it is that different,” the individual claimed. “He doesn’t talk about it or even complain much.
He senses something is off, but he doesn’t have a full grasp of it.”
The source said Willis’s personality has changed considerably from when he was younger and “had a lot of energy and talked a ton,” and that the actor is becoming more “at ease.” Willis’s representative has not yet responded to a request for comment from Page Six.
In September, the “Die Hard” star’s wife, Emma Heming, gave an update about the “constant state of grief” she was navigating while caring for her husband. “It’s natural — we all want our loved ones to be healthy, full of life and [be] the person they always were,” she told Hello!
magazine at the time. “But FTD is a devastating illness that steals things from you very slowly.”
Heming pointed to the “immense lack of information” about dementia, saying that people often ask whether Bruce still remembers her, which she called “really eye-opening.” “My answer is always a resounding yes. Bruce doesn’t have Alzheimer’s.
He has frontotemporal dementia, which affects a completely different part of the brain,” she said.
Willis was diagnosed with the progressive disease in February 2023, about a year after his family revealed he was stepping away from acting following an aphasia diagnosis. “While this is painful, it is a relief to finally have a clear diagnosis,” the family said in a statement, describing FTD as a “cruel disease” that can “strike anyone.”
The “Sixth Sense” actor has been surrounded by his five children throughout his health battle. He shares daughters Mabel, 14, and Evelyn, 12, with Heming, whom he married in 2009.
He is also father to daughters Rumer, 38, Scout, 35, and Tallulah, 32, whom he shares with his ex-wife, Demi Moore.
“Each of them has built her own unique bond with him,” Heming said in September. “It’s incredible because all five are completely different, but they share the same foundation.”
Fans got a rare glimpse of Willis in August at Tallulah’s Idaho wedding to Justin Acee, with Vogue publishing a photo of the father-daughter pair celebrating. Tallulah spoke about her “connection” to her father in a 2024 E!
News interview. “Our visits have so much love and I feel that overarches anything for me,” she said.
“I know he knows how much I love him, I know how much he loves me — I know how much he loves all of us.”
