'Moonlighting' Creator Glenn Gordon Caron Shares Update on Bruce Willis Following FTD Dementia Diagnosis

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We’re getting a new update on how Bruce Willis is doing following his dementia diagnosis. Earlier this year, the 68-year-old actor’s family announced that he had been diagnosed with a form of dementia called frontotemporal dementia.

The family had announced Bruce’s earlier diagnosis of aphasia and retirement in March 2022. In a new interview, Bruce‘s longtime friend Glenn Gordon Caron, who is also the creator of the ’80s ABC comedy series Moonlighting, shared a new update on how Bruce is doing. Keep reading to find out more… While speaking with The Post, Glenn, 69, says that he has tried to visit with Bruce almost every month since was first diagnosed with aphasia. “I’m not always quite that good but I try and I do talk to him and his wife [Emma Heming Willis] and I have a casual relationship with his three older children,” Glenn shared. “I have tried very hard to stay in his life.” Glenn continued, “The thing that makes [his disease] so mind-blowing is [that] if you’ve ever spent time with Bruce Willis, there is no one who had any more joie de vivre than he.

He loved life and … just adored waking up every morning and trying to live life to its fullest.” While Glenn knows that deep down Bruce is still the same person, he said that now it’s as if Bruce “seeing life through a screen door.” “My sense is the first one to three minutes he knows who I am.

He’s not totally verbal,” Glenn explained. “He used to be a voracious reader — he didn’t want anyone to know that — and he’s not reading now.