Bruce Willis' wife, Emma Heming Willis, revealed that she had to find a "different way" to communicate with him after he was diagnosed with dementia.
"The language is going, and we've learned to adapt," Heming Willis, 47, said of her husband's communication skills during ABC’s Emma and Bruce Willis: The Unexpected Journey – A Diane Sawyer Special on Tuesday, August 26. "We have a way of communicating with him, which is just a different way."
Despite having to adapt amid his health struggles, Heming Willis told Diane Sawyer that she was "grateful that my husband is still very much here."
Willis' family announced he was diagnosed with aphasia in 2022. The brain disorder “affects how you communicate,” according to The Mayo Clinic. “It can impact your speech, as well as the way you write and understand both spoken and written language.”
Nearly one year later, the family explained his health battle had progressed to frontotemporal dementia. The condition is “an umbrella term for a group of brain diseases that mainly affect the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain,” per The Mayo Clinic. “These areas of the brain are associated with personality, behavior and language.”
During the interview, Heming Willis explained that there are still "moments" where she sees the "twinkle in his eye," hears his "hardy laugh" and gets a glimpse of his signature "smirk." Heming Willis added that those moments with Willis, 70, make her feel "transported" back to a time before his diagnosis.
"And it's just hard to see, because as quickly as those moments appear, then it goes. It's hard," Heming Willis continued.
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According to Heming Willis, the Die Hard actor is happiest when he's with his family. In addition to sharing daughters Mabel, 13, and Evelyn, 11, with Heming Willis, the action star shares daughters Rumer Willis, 37, Scout Willis, 34, and Tallulah Willis, 31, with ex-wife Demi Moore.
"He's holding our hands. We're kissing him. We're hugging him. He is reciprocating," Heming Willis said of their family time together. "That's all I need, you know? I don't need him to know that I am his wife, and we were married on this day … I just wanna feel that I have a connection with him. And I do."
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