She said: \u201cI think for most [people], by the time you get to a diagnosis, you are already in that role.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, getting the diagnosis was a comfort in a way, after she had a period of time where she noticed her husband changing but didn\u2019t have an explanation for it.<\/p>\n
She recalled: \u201cThere was relief in understanding, \u2018Oh, okay, this wasn\u2019t my husband, it was that this disease was taking parts of his brain.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n
Although Heming Willis felt like she and her family were alone for a long time, she soon found comfort in people who were going through the same thing, and she\u2019s spoken out about her experience to help others.<\/p>\n
Now, she is letting herself still enjoy life, even in heartbreaking circumstances.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cWhile the grief and sadness and trauma is here all the time, I have learned it\u2019s okay for me to also enjoy our life.<\/p>\n
\u201cBruce would want that for me and for our kids, to not wallow in the sadness of it, but also rise to it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Heming Willis recently revealed she had made the difficult decision to move him into a one-storey house with a full-time care team, to protect the wellbeing of their daughters.<\/p>\n
As well as his children with Heming Willis, Bruce Willis also shares three adult daughters with his former wife, Demi Moore, 62 \u2013 Rumer, 37, Scout, 34, and Tallulah, 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She said: \u201cI think for most [people], by the time you get to a diagnosis, you are already…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74,795,799,797,796,790,156,793,798,800,791,794,111,139,69,303,792,102],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-after","tag-bruce","tag-dementia","tag-diagnosed","tag-diagnosis","tag-emma","tag-entertainment","tag-felt","tag-frontotemporal","tag-ftd","tag-heming","tag-isolated","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-very","tag-willis","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}