{"id":352116,"date":"2026-06-17T04:37:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=352116"},"modified":"2026-06-17T04:37:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:07:50","slug":"bruce-willis-wife-addresses-misconception-about-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/bruce-willis-wife-addresses-misconception-about-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Willis’ Wife Addresses ‘Misconception’ About Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bruce Willis<\/strong>\u2019 wife, Emma Heming Willis<\/strong>, is shedding light on her husband\u2019s frontotemporal dementia diagnosis.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s called frontotemporal dementia. Or FTD for brief. It affects the frontal lobe and the temporal lobes. That is executive decision, just your every single day type of functioning, language [and] compression. That\u2019s in your temporal lobe. The variant, because there\u2019s three various kinds of variants of FTD, the one which Bruce has affects language,\u201d Heming, 47, explained on the Monday, June 15 episode of the \u201cBossticks\u201d podcast. \u201cBut there\u2019s one other variant that may affect behavior and one other one that would affect movement. So here\u2019s three different variants to FTD.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked if Willis\u2019 diagnosis affects his memory, Heming replied, \u201cNo it doesn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a special a part of the brain,\u201d she continued. \u201cSo when people say, \u2018Oh, does he remember who you’re?\u2019 Well, he does because he doesn\u2019t have Alzheimer\u2019s, he has FTD. I believe that\u2019s a quite common misconception that, while you consider dementia, we predict of memory loss.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Related: <\/span>Bruce Willis’ Wife Says Dementia Diagnosis Is a ‘Blessing’ and ‘Curse’<\/span>
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\n\t\t\tEmma Heming Willis shared a brand new update about her husband Bruce Willis\u2019 battle with frontotemporal dementia. Heming Willis, 45, discussed the disease on the Monday, September 25, episode of Today in honor of World Frontotemporal Dementia Awareness Week, revealing it\u2019s \u201chard to know\u201d whether Willis, 68, is aware of his dementia. \u201cWhat I\u2019m learning is [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Willis\u2019 family shared in March 2022 that he had been diagnosed with the language disorder aphasia. It was later shared that he was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.<\/p>\n

Heming, who shares two children with Willis, explained that she will be able to feel like she\u2019s facing an \u201cambiguous loss\u201d while being a caretaker to her husband. (Heming and Willis, who tied the knot in 2009, welcomed daughters Mabel and Evelyn in 2012 and 2014, respectively. Willis can also be the dad of daughters Rumer, 37, Scout, 34, and Tallulah, 32, with ex-wife Demi Moore<\/strong>.)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s grieving someone who’s alive,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd that’s what many people who find themselves caregivers to someone with dementia experience, because your person is there physically but perhaps not mentally or emotionally.\u201d<\/p>\n

Heming explained that every one types of dementia \u201ctake and so they take and so they take, sometimes very slowly and you’re grieving different losses on a regular basis.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou’re consistently in grief. I\u2019ve just learned the way to navigate it,\u201d she said. \u201cPerhaps I\u2019m just a little bit more used to it at this point than I used to be early on. But yeah, you’re just sitting with it and moving alongside of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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