US EditionBruce Willis’ Wife Emma Heming Opens Up About Holidays With ‘Die Hard’ Star Amid Dementia Battle
Emma Heming Willis says the family keeps holiday traditions while adapting celebrations for Bruce Willis’s frontotemporal dementia, emphasizing joy and presence despite challenges.
- At the Well 2025 event, Emma Heming Willis described holidays with Bruce Willis, actor living with frontotemporal dementia, as still `joyous` though `it's just different`.
- Because Bruce Willis's aphasia and later FTD were disclosed, Emma Heming Willis said the family adapted holiday traditions, noting `dementia is hard, but there is still joy`.
- Emma Heming Willis described specific adaptations, noting they put `Die Hard` on as a Christmas movie and emphasized family presence and new memories as caregiving practices.
- Emma has used her platform to advocate, saying she offers guidance to families caring for someone with dementia and urges avoiding an exclusively negative portrayal of dementia.
- The couple's blended family provides support, with Emma Heming Willis and Bruce Willis married since 2009 sharing daughters Mabel Ray Willis and Evelyn Penn Willis , while Bruce's adult daughters with Demi Moore also contribute.
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Emma Heming Willis is looking forward to the upcoming holidays despite her husband's diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia. Despite the actor's serious illness, the family is successfully adapting to the situation and creating new memories alongside old traditions. "Life goes on. It just goes on. Dementia is hard, but there is still joy in it," said Bruce Willis' wife, among other things.
It's the best time of the year, but for Emma Heming-Willis the Christmas season is also associated with a lot of heartache. Because her husband Bruce Willis suffers from frontotemporal dementia and since the diagnosis nothing is as it once was. But the family does not want to be interrupted – certainly not in Advent! "You have to learn to adapt and create new memories," Emma Heming-Willis explained in conversation with the "People" magazine at t…
Emma Heming Willis Explains Holiday Reality Amid Bruce Willis’ Dementia
Emma Heming Willis is sharing an insight into what holidays such as Thanksgiving and Christmas now look like as her husband, Bruce Willis, continues to grapple with dementia. Speaking to People in an article published on Thursday, November 27, Heming Willis, 47, put a positive spin on how she and her family spend the holidays following the Die Hard star’s diagnosis. “Bruce loved Christmas, and we love celebrating it with him. It just looks diff…
Bruce Willis' family prepares for a different Christmas. The actor, diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, no longer lives with his wife and daughters in the main house. He now remains on a nearby property, under specialized care. The information was shared by Emma Heming, the interpreter's wife, in an interview with People magazine. He revealed, although the family maintains the Christmas spirit, the celebrations changed completely since Willi…
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