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\n Bruce Willis and Emma Heming Willis in 2019.
\n Photo: Theo Wargo\/Getty Images for Film at Lincoln\n <\/p>\n
Emma Heming Willis<\/a> wrote an essay on the \u201cgrief\u201d that comes with the holidays when caring for a loved one with dementia on her website<\/a> on December 20. She explains how she feels a \u201cmix of grief\u201d and \u201cannoyance\u201d when getting ready for the holidays with her family without the help of her husband, actor Bruce Willis<\/a>, who was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia<\/a> in 2023<\/a>. \u201cI find myself, harmlessly, cursing Bruce\u2019s name while wrestling with the holiday lights or taking on tasks that used to be his. Not because I\u2019m mad at him, never that, but because I miss the way he once led the holiday charge,\u201d she explained. \u201cYes, he taught me well, but I\u2019m still allowed to feel annoyed that this is one more reminder of how things have changed.\u201d<\/p>\n On the changes in her household, she shared that just because there is sadness and grief, it doesn\u2019t mean that there can\u2019t be happiness. She added, \u201cThere\u2019s a misconception that if the holidays aren\u2019t what they once were, they must be hollow. But meaning doesn\u2019t require everything to stay the same. It requires connection. This holiday season, our family will still unwrap gifts and sit together at breakfast. But instead of Bruce making our favorite pancakes, I will.\u201d As for what the Willis family will be doing this holiday, she concluded, \u201cWe\u2019ll put on a holiday movie. There will be laughter and cuddles. And there will almost certainly be tears because we can grieve\u00a0and\u00a0make room for joy. The joy doesn\u2019t cancel out the sadness. The sadness doesn\u2019t cancel out the joy. They coexist.\u201d<\/p>\n Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruce Willis and Emma Heming Willis in 2019. Photo: Theo Wargo\/Getty Images for Film at Lincoln Emma Heming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[14646,236,2692,27420,181454,48964,88,97,3],"class_list":{"0":"post-373967","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-celebrity","11":"tag-celebrity-health","12":"tag-christmas-2025","13":"tag-emma-heming-willis","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-health","16":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373967","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=373967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}