Bruce Willis' friend gives a new heartbreaking update on his condition
The creator in the moonlight Glenn Gordon Caron spoke of his friend and colleague.
Finally, the 80s series At the Moonlight - who gave the star Bruce Willis His big break - is in difficulty online. Unfortunately, the news arrives at a particularly difficult period for Willis and his relatives. Earlier this year, Willis' family shared that he had received a diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia. The news came after being announced previously in 2022 that he had aphasia and retired.
Willis' wife, Emma Heming Willis , continued to share updates on the actor, and now another person close to the star has spoken. At the Moonlight Creator Glenn Gordon Caron spoke to New York Post About his friend Willis, including their current relationship, how will feel Willis At the Moonlight Be available online and how the actor is now. Read the continuation for the last on the 68 -year state.
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Willis has a frontotemporal dementia.
In a press release published on Instagram and shared by the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration in February 2023, Willis Family announced that he had received a diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
The Mayo clinic explains that " Frontotemporal dementia is an umbrella term for a group of brain disorders which mainly affect the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. These brain areas are generally associated with personality, behavior and language. ""
This form of dementia can cause behavioral changes and speech and language problems. According to the Mayo clinic, patients can "have spectacular changes in their personality and become socially inappropriate, impulsive or emotionally indifferent, while others lose the ability to properly use language".
Willis had already received a diagnosis of aphasia, which is specifically linked to communication. Aphasia "Is a disorder that affects the way you communicate. It can have an impact on your speech, as well as the way you write and understand both spoken and written language," according to Mayo Clinic.
Willis retired after following his diagnosis of aphasia.
In relation: It was the first sign of aphasia of Bruce Willis, say the colleagues .
Caron explained how difficult it is to accept the diagnosis of Willis.
In an interview with the New York Post ,, Caron spoke of going to visit Willis , that he said that he tries to do about once a month, and how "breathtaking" he is to see Willis in his current state.
"I tried very much to stay in his life. She is an extraordinary person," said Caron. "What makes [his illness] so breathtaking is that [if you have already spent time with Bruce Willis, there is no one who had more joy of lively than him. He loved life and ... Just loved the awakening every morning and try to live life fully. So, the idea that he now sees life through a wallpaper, if you want, has very little sense. It is really a Incredible guy. "
He thinks Willis always recognizes it.
Caron shared that he believes that Willis recognizes it - if not briefly - during their visits.
"My meaning is the first to be three minutes, he knows who I am," said the writer and producer. "He is not totally verbal; he was a voracious reader - he did not want someone to know it - and he does not read now. All these linguistic skills are no longer available for him, and yet he is always Bruce . "
He added: "When you are with him, you know that he is bruce and you are grateful that he is there, but the joy of Vive is gone."
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He knows that Willis would be happy At the Moonlight Streaming.
The five seasons of At the Moonlight started to broadcast on Hulu on October 10. While many other classic shows of the time have been broadcast for years At the Moonlight , which was broadcast from 1985 to 1989, has long been retained due to musical rights problems.
In April 2022, Caron said The writing that Disney, which has the show, said to him: "Look at, the big problem we have is that the show is just stimulated in music. None of these rights has been sewn, and we think it would be prohibitive to go get them now. '"
Caron recalled: "The last conversation I had with them, which, I suppose, was probably about two years ago, music was really the financial reason."
Now the situation has changed. Caron teased for the first time on social networks that the show stood online in October 2022, and a year later, he materialized.
Caron said to New York Post That he knows will be "really happy" about the news, because they talked about it before his condition gets worse.
"The process [to obtain At the Moonlight On Hulu] took a while and Bruce's disease is a progressive disease, "said Caron:" So I was able to communicate with him, before the disease makes him as incommunicative as now, to hope Show in front of people. I know it means a lot for him. ""
Willis' wife also shared an update about him recently.
On September 25, Heming Willis appeared on the Today Show as part of the World Week for Dementia of Dementia of Dementia and shared an update on Willis's health.
"Dementia is difficult," said Heming Willis. "It is difficult for the diagnosed person, it is also difficult for the family. And it is no different for Bruce, or myself, nor our daughters. And when they say that it is a family disease, This is really the case. "
Willis and Heming Willis have two young girls, 11 years old My beauty and nine Evelyn . The actor also has three adult girls, Rumer, Scout and Tallulah Willis , with the ex-wife Half moore .
Heming Willis talked about sharing Willis' diagnosis with their two children.
"We are a very honest and open house, and the most important thing was to be able to tell us to say what the disease was, explain what it is - because when you know what the disease is a point of Medical view, it sort of sense, "she said. "It was important that we told them what it is, because I do not want there to be stigma or a shame attached to the diagnosis of their father or for any form of dementia."
When asked if Willis is aware of what's going on with him, Heming Willis replied: "It's hard to know."
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