Bruce Willis' wife Emma Heming has published a new post in which she talks about her husband's battle with temporal-frontal dementia and denies the actor no longer experiences "joy in his life".
News stories with similar headlines have appeared in many tabloids recently. The actor ended his career last year due to a severe diagnosis - frontotemporal dementia. Because of this diagnosis, he can't remember the words from the scripts, and now, according to those close to him, he is already struggling with them as well.
"The headline says my husband no longer enjoys anything - I can now say that is far from the truth. I need the public and those who write these stupid headlines to stop scaring people."
"Stop scaring people that once they're diagnosed with some neurocognitive illness it means: it's over, let's go home, there's nothing more to see here - no, it's the opposite." She said their story was "full of grief and sadness" but there was also "love, connections with loved ones, happiness and joy".
Emma Hemming stressed that it has taken her a long time to get to this point, and now "life has really taken on meaning, there is a real sense of purpose." "There is so much beauty and soulfulness in this story," Emma Hemming said.Emma added that the constant negative coverage of the actor's illness makes it difficult for people who help patients with similar illnesses and many are humiliated. "These headlines that constantly paint a bleak picture of dementia are damaging because such people need support. And such news can sway a person who wants to help in another direction."
Other people have spoken about Bruce Willis's condition before: for example, his friend Glenn Gordon Caron, the director of the Moonlight Detective Agency TV series, who has visited him. He remarked that Willis's usual joie de vivre was gone, he had stopped reading, although he used to read books constantly, and "language skills were no longer accessible to him". / BGNES
