US EditionBruce Willis “Found Secret Ways Of Working Through Degenerative Illness,” Wife Reveals In Book
- Emma Heming Willis published an Instagram post on May 27 expressing hope her book helps caregivers care for themselves during dementia challenges.
- She shared that after Bruce Willis’s frontotemporal dementia diagnosis in 2023, they left the doctor's office with shock, no guidance, or plan.
- Emma’s book, The Unexpected Journey, due September 9, reveals how Bruce continued acting on films like Assassin and Detective Knight despite cognitive decline.
- The book reveals that Bruce relied on an earpiece for his lines after directors reduced his dialogue, and Emma described it as the resource she wished she had when Bruce received his diagnosis.
- Emma’s narrative highlights the need for caregiver support and aims to offer hope and direction lacking at her husband’s diagnosis onset in 2022-2023.
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Bruce Willis retired from the performance in March 2022, when his family reported that he had aphasia. Nearly a year later, they also explained that he suffered from frontotemporal dementia, a disease without cure. At age 70, when he turned last March, his wife, Emma Heming Willis, his ex-wife, Demi Moore, and his five daughters, now took care of him. Before these revelations, Willis continued to act, although he was already beginning to suffer …
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Before sharing his dementia diagnosis with the world, Bruce Willis was eager to keep making movies—even if it meant using an ear piece. While working on Assassin (2023) and the Detective Knight series (2022-23), the Die Hard star had directors scale down his dialogue and had a friend feed...
In the book The Unexpected Journey by Heming Willis, Bruce Willis’ wife, she reveals how the actor continued to work despite his condition, “it’s not an autobiography, but a self-help work,” the author said. She explains how the actor found ways to move forward with his performance, making the directors reduce their dialogues and getting a friend to pass his lines through a headset in the film Assassin and the Detective Knight series.
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The Independent (US)Bruce Willis ‘found ways to soldier on with acting’ amid dementia diagnosis
Willis’s family announced he would be stepping away from acting in 2022
Emma Heming Willis reveals in her upcoming book how her husband Bruce Willis, who has dementia, continued to act in the early stages of his illness. This is reported by the Australian news site News.com.au based on The unexpected journey, which will be published in September.
Wife Emma reveals in book: Bruce Willis found secret ways to continue working despite dementia, which helped the star to continue his work.
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