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Bruce Willis' Early Dementia Symptoms Dismissed as 'Just a Part of a Stutter' He'd Had Since Childhood

Bruce Willis' early struggles with language were seen as a return of his “severe stutter,” wife Emma Heming Willis said

Early issues with language — the first symptom of Bruce Willis' frontotemporal dementia — were dismissed as his ongoing struggle with stuttering The actor's wife, Emma Heming Willis, shared that the Die Hard star pursued acting as a way to manage the stutter She shared she's doing "much better" these days and that "there are cracks of light" as she navigates her husband's disease “As his language started changing, it [seemed like it] was just a part of a stutter, it was just Bruce,” Heming Willis told the outlet. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is an all-encompassing term for a group of diseases that impact the brain’s frontal and temporal lobes — the areas associated with personality, behavior and language — Mayo Clinic explains.

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