Bruce Willis “Not Totally Verbal” Amid Dementia Battle, Says Moonlighting Creator #brucewillis

Bruce Willis not totally verbal amid dementia battle says Moonlighting Creator T was announced by his family last March that Bruce Willis would retire from acting after being diagnosed with Aphasia nearly a year later he received a more specific diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia FDD since then Willis’s family members have shared updates about his life including the celebration of his 68th birthday earlier this year alongside Demi Moore his ex-wife and their three children Scout rumor and Tula and his current wife Emma Heming Willis and their two children Mabel and Evelyn this month Willis’s late 1980s ABC series

Moonlighting became available to stream on Hulu for Five Seasons Willis and Sy Bill Shephard revolutionized the will they or won’t they couple on TV and the actor was eager for the world to see the show again on streaming according to Moonlighting Creator Glenn Gordon Karen the process to get Moonlighting onto Hulu has taken quite a while in Bruce’s disease is a progressive disease so I was able to communicate with him before the disease rendered him as incommunicative as he is now about hoping to get the show back in front of people Karen recently told the

New York Post I know it means a lot to him Karen said that he has kept in contact with Willis’s wife and three older children since

colleagues on the sets of the actor’s most recent films expressed concern about his welfare prior to diagnosis I have tried very hard to stay in his life Karen said adding the thing that makes his disease so mind-blowing is that if you’ve ever spent time with Bruce Willis there is no one who had any more Jad de VI than he he loved life and just adored waking up every morning and

trying to live life to its fullest Karen said that FTD has rendered Willis largely unable to communicate sharing that it’s as if he now sees life through a screen door but he believes Willis is still able to recognize him my sense is the first one 1 to 3 minutes he knows who I am he said he’s not totally verbal he used to be a voracious reader he didn’t want anyone to know that and he’s not reading now all those language skills are no longer available to him and yet he’s still Bruce the Creator added when

you’re with him you know that he’s Bruce and you’re grateful that he’s there but the Jad de vivra is gone Heming Willis who has been married to the actors since 2009 offered her own update to today last month during World front temp Al dementia awareness week she explained that while Willis’s condition is hard on the family there are still so many beautiful things happening in our lives it’s just really important for me to look up from the grief and the sadness so that I can see what is happening around us Bruce would really want us

to be in the joy of what is he would really want that for me and our family