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Bruce Willis' Wife Emma Heming Gets Emotional Recalling Going Public With Actor's Dementia Diagnosis


The 'Die Hard' star's family revealed his frontotemporal dementia diagnosis in 2023.

In 2023, Emma, Bruce's ex-wife, Demi Moore, and his three oldest daughters, Rumer, Scout and Tallulah Willis, shared the news with the world -- via a joint statement-- that a year after the star's aphasia diagnosis, his condition progressed. On Tuesday, Emma attended the AFTD 2024 Education Conference where she revealed the emotional way her and Bruce's young daughters, Mabel, 12, and Evelyn, 9, inspired the family's decision to go public. Emma -- who has been married to Bruce since 2009 and is his primary caretaker -- cried as she share the amount of weight that was lifted from her shoulders after going public and "taking her power back."

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