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According to friend Glenn Gordon Caron, Bruce Willis, 68, has frontotemporal dementia and is “not totally verbal,” but “when you’re with him, you know that he’s Bruce.”
In a Wednesday interview with the New York Post, Caron, 69, said that although if the “Die Hard” actor’s health is deteriorating and his “language skills are no longer available to him,” he is “still Bruce.”
Caron produced the television series “Moonlighting,” which featured Willis. Willis and Cybill Shepherd’s comedy-drama series is already available for streaming on Hulu, which Caron believes would make Willis “very happy.””I know he’s really happy that the show is going to be available for people, even though he can’t tell me that,” 69-year-old Caron revealed of the retired actor Willis to The Post. “When I got to spend time with him we talked about it, and I know he’s excited.””The thing that makes (Willis’ disease) so mind-blowing is if you’ve ever spent time with Bruce Willis, there is no one who had any more joie de vivre than he,” Caron stated. “He simply cherished getting up every morning and attempting to live life to the fullest. The dementia diagnosis that Bruce Willis’s wife Emma Heming Willis describes as “a blessing and a curse”
Caron produced the television series “Moonlighting,” which featured Willis. Willis and Cybill Shepherd’s comedy-drama series is already available for streaming on Hulu, which Caron believes would make Willis “very happy.””I know he’s really happy that the show is going to be available for people, even though he can’t tell me that,” 69-year-old Caron revealed of the retired actor Willis to The Post. “When I got to spend time with him we talked about it, and I know he’s excited.””The thing that makes (Willis’ disease) so mind-blowing is if you’ve ever spent time with Bruce Willis, there is no one who had any more joie de vivre than he,” Caron stated. “He simply cherished getting up every morning and attempting to live life to the fullest. The dementia diagnosis that Bruce Willis’s wife Emma Heming Willis describes as “a blessing and a curse”Last month, Willis’ wife, 45-year-old Emma Heming Willis, gave an update on the “Today” show, telling co-anchor Hoda Kotb that it’s “hard to know” if the celebrated actor is aware of the illness.”It was a blessing and a curse to finally understand what was happening to him so I can be into the acceptance of what it is,” Heming Willis stated. “It doesn’t make it any less painful, but just being in the know of what is happening to Bruce makes it a little bit easier.”
In 2022, Willis was diagnosed with aphasia, a condition that impairs speech and other forms of communication.There is no treatment or cure for the disease, which Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration CEO Susan Dickinson said during the segment could be passed on genetically in about 20-25% of people, but is also “sporadic,” meaning medical professionals don’t know what causes the condition.
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