\nTallulah Willis explained how she now \u2018savors\u2019 the time she has with her dad
\nNews of Bruce Willis\u2019 rapidly deteriorating health sent shockwaves through Hollywood and the rest of the world, but none more so than family \u2013 including his daughter, Tallulah Willis.\n
The Die Hard actor was once a staple in the action genre, but having taken a step back from acting in 2022, he has since been forced into retirement, having been diagnosed with dementia, or more specifically, frontotemporal degeneration (FTD).\n
According to the Mayo Clinic, the condition affects the frontal and temporal lobe in the brain \u2013 the areas of the brain associated with personality, behavior, and language.\n
Tallulah has since spoken out about how her 69-year-old father\u2019s diagnosis affected her personally, as she spoke candidly in an interview with Vogue back in 2023.\n
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\u201cMy family announced in early 2022 that Bruce Willis was suffering from aphasia, a brain-mediated inability to speak or to understand speech, and we learned earlier this year that that symptom was a feature of frontotemporal dementia, a progressive neurological disorder that chips away at his cognition and behavior day by day. But I\u2019ve known that something was wrong for a long time,\u201d she explained.\n
\u201cIt started out with a kind of vague unresponsiveness, which the family chalked up to Hollywood hearing loss: \u2018Speak up! Die Hard messed with Dad\u2019s ears\u2019. Later that unresponsiveness broadened, and I sometimes took it personally.\n
\u201cHe had had two babies with my stepmother, Emma Heming Willis, and I thought he\u2019d lost interest in me. Though this couldn\u2019t have been further from the truth, my adolescent brain tortured itself with some faulty math: I\u2019m not beautiful enough for my mother, I\u2019m not interesting enough for my father.\u201d\n
She continued: \u201cI admit that I have met Bruce\u2019s decline in recent years with a share of avoidance and denial that I\u2019m not proud of. The truth is that I was too sick myself to handle it.\u201d\n
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Tallulah went on to explain how she had suffered with body dysmorphia, which is a mental health condition where people are consumed by the worry of their appearance.\n
She explained how her dad still recognizes her, \u2018give or take a bad day\u2019, and she now tries to \u2018savor that time\u2019 that she spends with him.\n
Before heartbreakingly explaining how she feels that \u2018this is the beginning of grief\u2019.\n
\u201cThere\u2019s this little creature changing by the hour, and there\u2019s this thing happening with my dad that can shift so quickly and unpredictably,\u201d she added.\n
\u201cIt feels like a unique and special time in my family, and I\u2019m just so glad to be here for it.\u201d\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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