Bruce Willis' daughter gives the update on her "really aggressive" dementia
Tallulah Willis talks about the diagnosis of her father's frontotemporal dementia.
After Bruce Willis was diagnosed first with aphasia and then with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), his family continued to share Updates on its state . Now, in a new interview, Bruce's daughter Tallulah Willis has shed light on the reasons why her sisters, her mother Half moore , and Bruce's current woman Emma Heming Willis Publicly talk about their experience. She also shared how her father goes today and the "special" way they spend their time together.
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Tallulah appeared on The Drew Barrymore Show Wednesday, November 8. During the interview, She was asked about Bruce And how he now goes after his diagnosis. "He has a truly aggressive cognitive disease, a very rare form of dementia," said the 29 -year -old player. She added that the 68 -year -old Sixth Sense The actor was stable recently, which she knows how to be a good thing in this case.
"It is the same, which, I think, in this regard, I learned that it is the best thing you can ask," said Tallulah. "What I see is that I see love when I'm with him. And it's my father and he loves me, which is really special."
Host Drew Barrymore asked Tallulah why she and her family had chosen to be so open with the public on Bruce and her condition. "I think it's double," said Tallulah. “I think that on the one hand, who we are as a family. But it is also really important for us to make the FTD known ... If we can take something with which we have fought as a family and individually to help others, to turn is around, to do something beautiful On this subject, it is really special for us. ""
Tallulah also spoke with Barrymore of the way she connected with her father at that time. "A part of what was a very nice way for me to heal, it becomes to become an archaeologist for my father's affairs, his world, his small trinkets and his sleeps." Tallulah brought some old photos that she found from Bruce to the show. The youngest daughter of Bruce and Moore also said that she and her father connected by their love of music. "This is a large part of the way I spend time with him now, it is to play music and sit in this energy of love," she said. "And it's really special." AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
Bruce's family revealed in February 2023 that It had been diagnosed With frontotemporal dementia. It had already been diagnosed with the aphasia of the communication disorder and withdrew from the action. According to the Mayo clinic, Frontotemporal dementia "Is an umbrella term for a group of brain disorders which mainly affect the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain ... Some people with frontotemporal dementia have spectacular changes in their personality and become socially inappropriate, impulsive or emotionally indifferent, while D "Others lose the ability to use the language correctly."
Tallulah previously opened how Bruce diagnosis impacted it - and on its own experience with mental anorexia and diagnosis with a limited personality disorder - in a "as said" for Vogue in May.
"I knew that something has not been going on for a long time," she said about her father. "It started with a kind of insensitive wave, that the family has reprimanded the Hollywood hearing loss: 'talk! Die hard played with dad's ears. Later, this non-response has expanded, and I sometimes took it personally. ""
She continued: "He always knows who I am and lights up when I enter the room. (He can always know who I am, give or take the bad day. A difference between the FTD and the dementia of Alzheimer's is that, at least early in the disease, the first is characterized by language and engine deficits, while the second presents more memory loss.) I continue to return between the present and the past when I speak of Bruce: It is, it was, it is. Because I hope for my father that I am so reluctant to let go. I have always recognized elements of his personality in me, and I just know that we would be so Good friends if only there was more time. "
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