Bruce Willis’s Daughter Tallulah Shares Update About His Dementia Battle

The actress noted that her movie star father, who is presently battling dementia, is still doing well and that she always makes time to see him.

Tallulah’s comments about Bruce Willis come shortly after her sister, Rumer Willis, also updated fans on her dad’s health during a fan Q&A.

During an interview with People Magazine, Tallulah spoke about spending time with her dad, Bruce, who has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.’

She mentioned that whenever her schedule permits, she goes to “visit [her] dad and spend some time with him.”

When visiting her dad, Tallulah emphasized the importance of her going “into it open to what the visit is, and knowing that before I go in, I’m solid. I’m okay.”

She added, “I’ve done what I need to do to make sure that I can just be present.”

The Los Angeles-based entrepreneur and artist further shared that her father is still “doing the same in terms of the last we kind of updated, which I’m told is good. But whatever kind of day it is, my family and I meet him where he’s at.”

In another interview with E! News, Tallulah mentioned that Bruce’s condition remains stable, which she considers “a good thing,” and that her family supports one another through this challenging time.

“Our visits have so much love and I feel that overarches anything for me,” she explained.

Tallulah emphasized the importance of maintaining a strong connection with her father, noting: “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.”

While acknowledging this journey’s difficulties, the 30-year-old noted that Bruce’s condition has “created an opportunity for more love.”

“In the past, I might’ve dissociated or tuned out,” Tallulah noted about stressful times. “Where now there’s more vocabulary that we’ve all learned that we can use seamlessly with each other.”

During a recent Instagram Q&A, Rumer Willis also provided an update on her father, addressing fans’ concerns about the Hollywood icon’s health. “He is great,” she wrote alongside a touching photo of her holding the “Pulp Fiction” star’s hand. “I love him so much. Thank you.”

In May, at the premiere of her film, “My Divorce Party,” during the 24th Annual Beverly Hills Film Festival, Rumer provided another update on her father’s health.

“He’s great. Yeah, yeah, doing OK. Thank you so much for asking,” the actress told Fox News Digital. “I think, for me, through this experience, what’s been so incredible is my dad is so beloved, and that’s been so evident in the transparency with which we’ve been sharing,” she sad.

Rumer continued, “And I think if there’s any way sharing our experience brings hope — whatever comes forward as a family — that can have an effect and bring any sort of hope, comfort to someone else experiencing that, then to me, that’s… everything.”

In an Instagram post, Bruce’s wife, Emma Heming Willis, criticized a report suggesting her husband had lost all “joy” in life amid his health battle with dementia and aphasia.

The former model emphasized that the 68-year-old Hollywood icon still finds joy in his life, urging for a more nuanced understanding of the quality of life individuals can maintain while grappling with neurocognitive diseases.

In a video shared on her Instagram page, Emma asserted, “The headline says there is no more joy in my husband. Now, I can just tell you that is far from the truth. I need society and whoever’s writing these stupid headlines to stop scaring people.”

Bruce was diagnosed with aphasia in March 2022, with his family members confirming the sad news in a joint statement posted on their Instagram pages. Then, in January 2023, they shared an update announcing that the movie star had been further diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.

In her Instagram video, Emma emphasized the need for a shift in public and media perceptions regarding neurocognitive diseases.

Addressing the tendency to instill fear upon diagnosis, she urged: “Stop scaring people to think that once they get a diagnosis of some kind of neurocognitive disease that, ‘That’s it, it’s over, let’s pack it up, nothing else to see here, we’re done.’ No, it’s the complete opposite of that.”

Despite the challenges her family faces due to Willis’ health battle, Emma highlights the presence of love, connection, joy, and happiness amid the grief and sadness.

She called for an end to sensational headlines, stressing that “there’s nothing to see here, okay?”

In the lengthy caption of her post, Emma noted, “My experience is that two things can be true and exist at the same time. Grief and deep love. Sadness and deep connection. Trauma and resilience.”