Bruce Willis brain is failing him as wife Emma reveals actors alarming symptoms before dementia diagnosis

Bruce Willis’ wife is giving an important update on his dementia battle.In a preview of Emma Heming Willis’ sit-down interview with Diane Sawyer airing on ABC Tuesday night, the 70-year-old actor’s wife explained the current status of his health after he was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia in 2023.“Bruce is still very mobile,” Emma, 47, shared.“Bruce is in really great health overall, you know.”“It’s just his brain that is failing him,” she added.Emma — who has been married to the “Die Hard” actor since 2009 and shares daughters Mabel, 13, and Evelyn, 11, with him —  said that Willis’ “language is going” and the family has “learned to adapt” to communicate with him in “a different way.”When Sawyer, 79, asked if there are “days that it would be Bruce again,” Emma replied: “We still get those days.

Not days, but we get moments.”“It’s his laugh, right? Like, he has such, like, a hearty laugh,” the model continued.“And, you know, sometimes you’ll see that twinkle in his eye, or that smirk, and, you know, I just get, like, transported.”As she fought back tears, Emma explained, “And it’s just hard to see, because as quickly as those moments appear, then it goes.

It’s hard.”“But I’m grateful,” she stated.“I’m grateful that my husband is still very much here.”Reflecting on the moment doctors told Willis about his diagnosis, Emma said, “To leave there with nothing, just nothing, with a diagnosis I couldn’t pronounce, I couldn’t understand what it was.”“I was so panicked.

I remember hearing it and not hearing anything else.I was free falling,” she recalled.The author also said she doesn’t think Willis “ever really connected the dots” to be able to understand his diagnosis.Earlier in the interview, Emma described the subtle symptoms that Willis had before he was officially diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.“For someone who was very talkative and very engaged,...