Bruce Willis Health Update: “The Joie De Vivre Is Gone,” Says ‘Moonlighting’ Creator
deadline.comMoonlighting creator Glenn Gordon Caron has spoken to Bruce Willis about the ’80s hit dramedy, which is making its streaming debut on Hulu.
In the course of that and shared a health update on Willis, who played detective David Addison opposite Cybill Shepherd’s Maddie Hayes, who owned the Blue Moon Detective Agency.
Willis, 68, has frontotemporal dementia and retired from acting in 2022. “The process [to get Moonlighting on streaming] has taken quite a while and Bruce’s disease is a progressive disease, so I was able to communicate with him, before the disease rendered him as incommunicative as he is now, about hoping to get the show back in front of people,” Caron told the New York Post. “I know he’s really happy that the show is going to be available for people, even though he can’t tell me that.
When I got to spend time with him, we talked about it and I know he’s excited.” Caron visits Willis about once a month and keeps in contact with the star’s wife, Emma Heming Willis.
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