Bruce Willis’ wife Emma Heming tells what was the first warning sign of dementia.
Bruce Willis is an actor with a long career. PDO
A Hollywood legend With Bruce Willis70, was diagnosed in 2022 with aphasia, a brain-based disease that makes it difficult to speak. In 2023, a more accurate diagnosis followed: frontotemporal dementia.
Willis has told many times how he stuttered as a child. Because of his stuttering, he became the class clown, and he also started performing on stage because of his stuttering.
The first sign of dementia was stuttering.
– I noticed that his stuttering started to come back. Bruce had a severe stuttering as a child, and it was with him later in life. As an adult, he managed to keep his stutter under control. I noticed that the stuttering came back, Heming said In an interview with NewsNation.
At the time, Heming did not understand that stuttering was a symptom of dementia. With the illness, Willis’s personality also changed, but sometimes the “old” Willis flashes out.
– That’s his laugh, isn’t it? He has such a hearty laugh. And sometimes you see that twinkle in the corner of the eye or a little grin on the lips – and in that moment I feel like I’m with him again, the wife said in August Good Morning America in the program.
Bruce Willis and Emma Heming Willis on the red carpet in 2019. PDO
Heming and Willis have daughters aged 11 and 13 who recognize their father. From his previous union Demi Moore’s with Willis has three daughters.
Willis became known to the general public from the hit series of the 80s Villain hooks for two. After the series, he moved into films and acted in several hit films like Die Hard, Pulp Fiction and Sixth sense.