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Bruce Willis’s wife, Emma Heming Willis, shared a special message for her husband on Father’s Day.
Emma shares with the actors the process of becoming a caregiver for Bruce after announcing a dementia diagnosis in 2023.
Emma, along with one of his daughters, appears to be a new photo of Bruce, wrote: “Happy Father's Day, wish all fathers with disabilities or illnesses, to show up in their way and for the children they appear.”
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Emma Heming Willis and Bruce Willis got married here for 16 years in 2009. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
She continued: “The things that Bruce teaches our girls are far beyond words. Resilience, unconditional love, and the quiet power of simply being present. So much of this picture. Love deepens. It deepens. It can adapt. It still exists, even if everything else changes.”
To make himself “fair”, Emma added: “These symbolic days are exciting.”
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“I'm very sad today,” she admitted. “I hope that with every cell in my body, it might be different for him and it's lighter for our family.”
In the community, she found that along with people who Bruce diagnosed the effects of frontotemporal dementia, a common saying is “this is what it is.”
Emma Heming Willis admits she was “very sad” on Father’s Day. (James Devaney/GC image)
She explained: “While it may sound disdainful to me, it's not. It took me root. It helped me to get back to what I accept, rather than trying to fight it as I did before.”
Emma urged her followers to end her post: “Today, let's celebrate Bad Daddy, those who are here and those we carry with us.”
In her Instagram story, she shares a series of old photos of Bruce with her two daughters. A photo shows him sitting in a museum with Mabel and Mabel and Evelyn, the actor wearing a pair of Ugg boots.
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Emma Heming Willis shared this photo of Bruce and his daughter on Father's Day. (Emma Heming Willis/Instagram)
Emma was joking, “I miss and mourn what it is, even those days.”
“I want everything.”
Bruce also shared with ex-wife Demi Moore that 36-year-old scout Langer, 33-year-old scout and 31-year-old Tallulah, first diagnosed with aphasia with speech disorders. His family shared the diagnosis in 2022 and announced that he would retire.
Bruce Willis maintains close relationships with his ex-wife Demi Moore and his three children. (Getty Image)
The following year, the family revealed that his condition had “progressed” and was given a more specific diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia.
This fall, Emma will release a book about the process and what she learned from it, called “Accidental Journey.” She talked about the book’s inspiration when she spoke at the Women’s Alzheimer’s Campaign forum last month in Las Vegas.
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“On the day Bruce got his diagnosis, we left the doctor's office with a brochure and hollow goodbye. There was no plan, no guidance, no hope, just shock,” she told the crowd at the forum.
“The future we imagined was simply gone, and I tried to bring my family together, raise our two young daughters, and take care of the men I loved while navigating the disease I barely understand.”
Emma said she felt “lost, isolated and scared” after hearing Bruce’s dementia diagnosis. （DIA Dipasupil/Wireimage）
“I feel lost, isolated and scared.” Emma is respected for advocating care. “I needed more than medical information at that moment. I needed someone to look at me and say, 'It feels impossible now, but you will find your footing. You will survive and you will grow because of it.'”
“This book is the roadmap I hope someone handed me in 2022,” she said. “I wrote this for other caregivers who desperately need answers, painfully support, and want to be seen and wonder how they will achieve this.”
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