{"id":911993,"date":"2026-10-01T07:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T07:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/911993\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T07:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T07:48:10","slug":"tallulah-willis-shares-new-photo-of-dad-bruce-willis-amid-his-dementia-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/911993\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallulah Willis shares new photo of dad Bruce Willis amid his dementia battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Tallulah Willis has shared a sweet photo of her and her acting legend father Bruce Willis, giving a rare insight into their family life amid his battle with dementia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The youngest daughter of Willis and Demi Moore took to Instagram on Tuesday to share the heartwarming father-daughter moment with her more than 400,000 followers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">In the photo, Tallulah, 32, was seen kissing the Die Hard actor on his forehead as she stood above him and carefully cradled his head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The Fifth Element star could be seen closing his eyes as he soaked up the special moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cSo cute! \ud83d\ude1a\ud83d\ude1a,\u201d she captioned the post, which provided a pleasant role reversal from other photos she has shared of her dad kissing her on the head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The photo comes nearly a month after Tallulah shared an update on the health of her dad, who was diagnosed with aphasia and frontotemporal dementia in 2022 and 2023 respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Aphasia is a language disorder that makes it hard to speak, read, write, or understand words, while FTD is a brain condition causing progressive damage to either or both the frontal or temporal lobes of the brain, according to Dementia Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">FTD can change people\u2019s behaviour, personality, language and movement. Memory isn\u2019t always affected, especially in the early stages, but these changes can get worse over time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Tallulah said at the end of August that her dad is \u201cdoing the same in terms of the last we kind of updated, which I\u2019m told is good\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cBut whatever kind of day it is, my family and I meet him where he\u2019s at.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The artist also told People that visiting her dad and spending \u201csome time with him\u201d has been a part of her routine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">When she does see her dad, she admits that it\u2019s important for her \u201cto go into it open to what the visit is, and knowing that before I go in, I\u2019m solid. I\u2019m okay\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">It comes as Willis attended Tallulah\u2019s August 8 wedding to husband Justin Acee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The 71-year-old could be seen in one black-and-white photo smiling with one arm around Tallulah as she leaned into him, while Acee held his other hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Willis and Moore also share daughters Rumer and Scout, and Willis is also dad to daughters Mabel and Evelyn with his wife Emma Heming Willis who cares for him full-time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tallulah Willis has shared a sweet photo of her and her acting legend father Bruce Willis, giving a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,4794,1625,344],"class_list":["post-911993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-health-fitness","tag-lifestyle","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}