Bruce Willis‘-woman shares intimate moments from his life as a family man ahead of the holidays.
In a series of Instagram stories posted Sunday, Emma Heming shared family photos of the 69-year-old actor spending time with his two young daughters.
Among the photos was a black and white photo of Heming and Willis with Mabel, 12, and Evelyn, 10, captioned: “They. Always.’ In the photo, the couple smiles as they look lovingly into each other’s eyes, with their daughters sitting on their laps.
The other photos show Willis giving one of his daughters a golf lesson, and another shows him and one of his daughters on the spinning teacups at Disneyland.
Willis’ wife shared intimate moments of Willis with his children ahead of the holiday. (Emma Heming Instagram/Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
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Among the photos is a video of Willis sitting in a chair outside while yodelling, which Heming captioned, “Him. Always’ added.
“Yodel-o-whoo-whoo,” the former actor can be heard singing, adding, “Okay, folks, this is…” before laughing and the video cut off.
Willis and his daughter during the teacup ride at Disneyland. (Emma Heming Instagram)
Willis was first diagnosed with aphasia in March 2022, and his family later announced that he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, or FTD. In an interview with Town & Country in October, Heming shared the early symptoms of his dementia were fired because he struggled with stuttering as a child.
“He had a severe stutter as a child,” she explained. “Bruce has always had a stutter, but he has been good at covering it up. When his language started to change, it (it seemed) was just part of the stutter, it was just Bruce.”
Willis’ early symptoms were dismissed because of his struggle with stuttering as a child. (Rich Rage/Getty Images)
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According to the National Institute on Aging, FTD occurs as “a result of damage to neurons in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain” and symptoms include “unusual behavior, emotional problems, communication problems, problems with work, or problems with walking.”
In addition to his two children with Heming, Willis also shares three adult daughters, Rumer, 36, Scout, 33, and Tallulah, 30, with his ex-wife. Demi Moore. The former couple finalized their divorce in 2000. They have remained good friends and co-parents.
“You know, I’ve said this before. The disease is what the disease is,” Moore told the audience at the 2024 Hamptons International Film Festival as he accepted the award for his career in acting, according to People magazine. “And I think you have to have a deep acceptance of what that is. But where he is now, he is stable.”
She also shared insights about how she and the rest of the family have learned to work with his diagnosis in their interactions with him, explaining that you “have to just meet them where they are,‘ because ‘if you hold on to what was, I think it’s a losing game.’
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Moore and Willis have remained close after their divorce in 2000. (Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images)
