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Emma Heming Willis is sharing an emotional update amid her husband Bruce Willis' dementia diagnosis.
In a new interview with Diane Sawyer for Emma and Bruce Willis: The Unexpected Journey, Emma revealed that she moved the Die Hard star into a separate one-story home so he can have around-the-clock care, per Page Six. She didn't take the move lightly, calling it "one of the hardest decisions I've had to make" and noting that it would be what Bruce wanted for their two daughters, Mabel, 13, and Evelyn, 11.
"He would want them to be in a home that was more tailored to their needs, not his needs," she said.
While Bruce may be living away from his family, they still make sure to see him often. The house he is staying in is not far from their own family home, and Emma explained that they have breakfast and dinner visits and that their daughters spend "a lot" of time with their dad.
The Fifth Element actor's family revealed in 2022 that he had been diagnosed with aphasia, a language disorder that affects one's ability to communicate, and they shared his frontotemporal dementia (FTD) diagnosis the following year. Speaking to Sawyer, Emma shared that their family has learned a way to communicate with Bruce in a way that works for them.
"Bruce is in really great health overall, you know. It's just his brain that is failing him," she said. "The language is going and, you know, we've learned to adapt and we have a way of communicating with him, which is just a different, a different way."
In a preview for the interview, Emma detailed some of the "hard" moments of the actor's health struggles, specifically seeing fleeting glimpses of her husband's "warm" personality shining through.
In addition to Mabel and Evelyn, Bruce is a dad to daughters Rumer, 37, Scout, 34, and Tallulah, 31, whom he shares with ex-wife Demi Moore.