Bruce Willis’ Daughter Tallulah Says He Still Remembers Her Amid Dementia Battle: ‘He Lights Up’

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An unbreakable bond. Tallulah Willis opened up about her father Bruce Willis’ dementia battle and shared that he still recognizes her.“He still knows who I am and lights up when I enter the room,” Tallulah, 29, penned in a Wednesday, May 31, personal essay for Vogue.

The Idaho native and her family — mom Demi Moore, sisters Rumer Willis and Scout Willis, stepmom Emma Heming and half-sisters Mabel, 11, and Evelyn, 8 — announced in March 2022 that Bruce, 68, had been diagnosed with aphasia.In February, Moore, 60 — who was married to the Sixth Sense star from 1987 to 2000 — revealed that the actor had received the “more specific diagnosis” of frontotemporal dementia (FTD). “Today there are no treatments for the disease, a reality that we hope can change in the years ahead,” the Indecent Proposal actress wrote in a statement via the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD) at the time.Although Bruce’s loved ones disclosed his condition just last year, Tallulah wrote that she knew “something was wrong for a long time.” She continued: “It started out with a kind of vague unresponsiveness, which the family chalked up to Hollywood hearing loss: ‘Speak up!

Die Hard messed with Dad’s ears.’”In order to view the video, please allow Manage CookiesThe child actor admitted to taking the changes personally at first, fearing that her father was simply preoccupied with Heming, 44 — whom he wed in 2009 — and their two daughters.“Later that unresponsiveness broadened, and I sometimes took it personally.

He had had two babies with my stepmother, Emma Heming Willis, and I thought he’d lost interest in me,” she recalled. “Though this couldn’t have been further from the truth, my adolescent brain tortured itself with some faulty