{"id":306295,"date":"2025-11-22T02:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T02:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/306295\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T02:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T02:28:08","slug":"rumer-willis-shares-heart-wrenching-update-on-dad-bruce-willis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/306295\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumer Willis Shares Heart-Wrenching Update On Dad Bruce Willis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rumer Willis is sharing another heart-wrenching update about her dad, Bruce Willis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The \u201cDie Hard\u201d star now has frontotemporal dementia<\/a>, a progressive brain disorder, after first being diagnosed with aphasia<\/a> in 2022. His eldest daughter struggled on Friday to describe how her father was doing.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople always ask me this question,\u201d she said in an Instagram Q&A session<\/a>. \u201cAnd I think it\u2019s kind of a hard one to answer, because the truth is that anybody with FTD is not doing great. But he\u2019s doing OK in terms of somebody who\u2019s dealing with frontotemporal dementia, you know what I mean?\u201d<\/p>\n

The 37-year-old noted that she could just say, \u201cHe\u2019s doing great,\u201d but explained that \u201cthose parameters don\u2019t really work anymore.\u201d She elaborated in a separate Instagram Story on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe answer that I would give is that I\u2019m so happy and grateful that I still get to go and hug him,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m so grateful that when I go over there and give him a hug, whether he recognizes me or not, that he can feel the love I\u2019ve given him and I can feel it back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"RumerRumer Willis backstage with dad after her 2015 Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in “Chicago.”<\/p>\n

Bruce Glikas\/FilmMagic\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Willis married fellow actor Demi Moore<\/a> in 1987, welcoming Rumer and her sisters Scout and Tallulah before the couple finalized their divorce in 2000. He has since had two more kids with his second wife, Emma Heming Willis<\/a>, whom he married in 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Heming Willis revealed earlier this year that her husband\u2019s brain \u201cis failing him\u201d<\/a> \u2014 and that \u201cthe language is going.\u201d<\/p>\n

FTD is the result of neuron damage in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. It can result in unusual behavior, communication issues and emotional problems, according to the National Institute of Aging<\/a>. There is no cure, notes<\/a> the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration.<\/p>\n

Rumer Willis, who welcomed<\/a> her first daughter, Louetta Isley Thomas Willis, in 2023, ultimately ended on a note of gratitude Friday, stating: \u201cI still see a spark of him, and he can feel the love that I\u2019m giving, and so, that feels really nice.\u201d<\/p>\n

She continued, \u201cI just feel grateful that I get to go over there with Lou and we get to spend time with him. And I get to feel the love that he has for me and that he puts out for me, and I can love him \u2014 and be with him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rumer Willis is sharing another heart-wrenching update about her dad, Bruce Willis. The \u201cDie Hard\u201d star now has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[14646,236,1103,88,77550],"class_list":{"0":"post-306295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-bruce-willis","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-dementia","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-rumer-willis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}