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Bruce Willis is being ‘chipped away day by day’ by dementia, says daughter Tallulah

Tallulah Willis, daughter of Hollywood actor Bruce Willis and his ex Demi Moore, discussed her father’s dementia diagnosis and her own health journey in a candid personal essay

Bruce Willis’ daughter, Tallulah Willis, has given an update on his dementia diagnosis in a moving essay.

The 68-year-old veteran actor suffers from frontotemporal dementia, a rare type of the horrific disease, that causes particular problems with behaviour and language. It results from damage to neurons in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. As a result, the actor stepped away from his Hollywood acting career in March and his wife Emma Heming Willis, who he wed in 2009, has been his “care partner” ever since.

And now Tallulah, Bruce’s 29 year old daughter, who he shares with ex Demi Moore, has spoken further about his medical condition while also speaking about her own struggles with anorexia and diagnosis with Border Personality Disorder. Speaking about the vitriolic online trolling she had been subjected to concerning her appearance since she was a child, Tallulah admitted that she first battled with talking about these matters given that she was a “nepo baby”. However, she soon realised that only she could “protect myself” because “no one is coming, not even my big, strong dad, an action hero onscreen and in my childish imagination”.

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