Bruce Willis’ daughter Rumer has revealed that her father is not always able to recognize her, because of the effects of dementia. Rumer, 37, his oldest child with first wife Demi Moore, said during a Q&A on Instagram, “I’m so grateful that when I go over there and I give him a hug, whether he recognizes me or not, he can feel the love I’ve given him and I can feel it back from him.” She added that she can “still see a spark of him and he can feel the love that I’m giving.” Her Die Hard star father was first diagnosed with aphasia in March 2022. In February of the following year, his family shared that his diagnosis had advanced to frontotemporal dementia, known as FTD. Rumer Willis told her followers it is “hard” to provide updates on her father’s health because “anybody with FTD is not doing great.” For someone with FTD, “he’s doing okay.” Representatives for Rumer Willis did not immediately respond to the Beast’s request for comment. The actor’s second wife, Emma Heming Willis, 47, told ABC News’ Diane Sawyer in August that she knows he still recognizes her and his five daughters—two with her and three with Moore—because “he lights up” around them. Heming Willis said she doesn’t need her husband to understand she’s his wife, she just wants to feel she has “a connection with him.”
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