Emma Heming Willis, the wife of famous actor Bruce Willis, has defended her decision to relocate the much-loved actor to a second home after receiving a devastating dementia diagnosis.
Bruce Willis’ wife broke down in tears as she explained why she moved the Hollywood star out of their family home earlier this year. The father-of-five, 70, who shares two daughters with Emma Heming Willis, 47, is battling frontotemporal dementia (FTD), which affects language and personality as well as causing gradual cognitive decline.
Emma has been by her husband’s side since he was diagnosed in 2022. However, in August, she made the heartbreaking decision to move Bruce into a second home, which is close to the family’s main residence, so that he can be looked after by carers 24/7.
At the End Well 2025 conference last month, Emma reacted to criticism for making the “hard decision,” revealing she had been subjected to criticism for it. She cried out.
READ MORE: Legendary BBC Radio 2 presenter with reputation for ruffling feathers dies as tributes flood inREAD MORE: Jessie J’s cruel twist of fate and ‘ruined plan’ after breast cancer diagnosis
She resisted saying, “This is not how I envisioned our life, and I was faced with an “impossible” decision regarding Bruce’s living arrangements.”
These are difficult choices, they say. These are beyond my power to comprehend; I’m indulging in them. They are inescapable choices. She continued, “This is not how I envisioned our life.”
“I therefore had to make the best and safest decision for our family, and I knew that it would be largely based on my own judgment.” And what’s interesting about it is that it doesn’t originate from our family, but rather comes from the outside.
Despite making the agonising decision, Emma says her family is now thriving, inisisting that: “the world has completed opened up” for both Bruce and their daughters.
She remarked, “This is the best choice for our family.” Our family is now thriving in essence because it was the safest one.
People are unaware of how important needs are left unfulfilled behind the scenes, and how now these needs are met for our children.
They are staying in a house where we don’t even consider having playdates or sleepovers. Both my husband’s and theirs have completely opened up.
His ex-wife Demi Moore, his daughters Rumer, 37, Scout, 34, and Tallulah, 31, are all members of Bruce’s blended family, which made public announcements that he had been diagnosed with FTD in 2023.
Rumer recently revealed that Bruce frequently cannot recognize Demi, but she hoped he could still feel her love, and his daughters with Demi occasionally update fans about their dad’s progress.
Taking to Instagram, sharing a snap of the pair, she wrote: “I’m so grateful that when I go over there, and I give him a hug, whether he recognises me or not, that he can feel the love I’ve given him, and I can feel it back from him. That I still see a spark of him, and he can feel the love that I’m giving.”
* If you have been affected by this story, information and advice can be found at Dementia UK.
Source: Mirror
Leave a Reply