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Rumer Willis says dad Bruce is doing ‘great’ as he battles dementia
Bruce Willis and Rumer Willis.
(Photo by Getty)Rumer Willis shared a new health update about her father, Bruce Willisamid his battle with dementia.
The actress responded to a fan question about the Die hard star via Instagram Stories on Thursday, August 22.
“He’s great. I love him so much. Thank you,” Rumer, 35, wrote as she shared a photo of the father-daughter duo holding hands.
Bruce’s family shared in 2022 that the Sixth sense actor, 69, had been diagnosed with aphasia, a condition that affects how a person can communicate.
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“To Bruce’s wonderful supporters, we wanted to share as a family that our beloved Bruce has had some health issues and was recently diagnosed with aphasia, which is impacting his cognitive abilities,” the family wrote in a statement posted via Instagram in March shared. 2022. “As a result, and with much consideration, Bruce steps away from the career that meant so much to him.”
A year later, the family said Bruce’s condition had progressed to a “more specific diagnosis: frontotemporal dementia (known as FTD).”
FTD is an “umbrella term for a group of brain diseases that primarily affect the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain” – areas “associated with personality, behavior and language,” according to Mayo Clinic.
In addition to Rumer, Bruce also shares daughters Scout33, and Tallulah, 30 with Demi Moore61, and is father to daughters, Mabel, 12, and Evelyn, 10, with wife Emma Heming – who have all rallied around the star since his diagnosis.
“This experience has brought the whole family even closer together,” the source shared exclusively We weekly in December 2023. “No one knows how much time Bruce has left, so they enjoy every moment they are with him.”
In the candid fan Q&A on Instagram, Rumer also revealed that she had split from her boyfriend Derek Richard Thomas.
The former couple share a 1-year-old daughter, Louetta, and Rumer said she was now “single-momming it and coparenting.”
Rumer Willis and musician Derek Richard Thomas debuted their romance almost a month before announcing they were expecting their first child. The pair posed together for a series of photos shared via Instagram in November 2022, which showed the guitarist kissing the 90210 alum on the cheek. “♥️🦞🐞🪱🦧♥️,” Willis and Thomas captioned their joint upload on social media. […]
Rumer previously shared details about her father’s sweet bond with his granddaughter.
‘He’s so good. I actually saw him right before I came out [to New York],” Rumer said on the Today may show. “And Lou just started walking a little bit, and she walked up to him, and it was so sweet.”
The Sorority row Star added that seeing her mother and father’s interactions with her daughter brought back fond memories of her own childhood.
“He’s a girl daddy, through and through. I saw him with my sisters, my little sisters,” she said. “Honestly, when I see them [Bruce and Moore] for her it unlocks almost all these childhood memories, because I think being a grandparent is the best. They have all the love and joy without any responsibilities. They can just spoil her.”
