Bruce Willis Gets Heartwarming Health Update From Daughter Rumer

Bruce Willis‘s daughter, Rumer, recently shared a new health update on her father, offering up a heartwarming piece of news on the legendary actor.

What is the latest Bruce Willis update?

During a recent Q&A session on her Instagram while streaming live (via Independent), Rumer was asked how her father was doing. While she did acknowledge that anyone living with FTD (frontotemporal dementia) isn’t “doing great,” her father was “doing okay.”

“I think it’s kind of a hard one [question] to answer because the truth is that anybody with FTD is not doing great,” the 37-year-old said. “But he’s doing okay in terms of somebody who’s dealing with frontotemporal dementia, you know what I mean?”

Willis went on to say that she remains grateful that her and her family continue to visit Willis, and offer up their love for him all the time.

“I’m so happy and grateful that I still get to go and hug him,” the actor — who has a two-year-old daughter, Louetta, with ex-boyfriend Derek Richard Thomas — said. “I’m so grateful that when I go over there and give him a hug, whether he recognizes me or not, that he can feel the love I’ve given him, and I can feel it back from him.”

In 2022, Willis announced that he would step away from the world of acting after being diagnosed with aphasia, a language disorder that affects the ability to communicate. In a 2023 update, Willis’ daughter Rumer announced that his diagnosis had progressed into frontotemporal dementia.

In 2023, Tallulah Willis, the daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, wrote an essay for Vogue detailing her family’s reaction to Willis’ diagnosis of dementia earlier this year, where she called the ongoing period for the family “the beginning of grief.” She noted that she and the rest of the family noticed that something wasn’t right with Willis “for a long time” but that it had been chalked up to Willis’ hearing damage that he suffered throughout his long career in the world of action films.

“I’ve known that something was wrong for a long time,” Tallulah wrote. “It started out with a kind of vague unresponsiveness, which the family chalked up to Hollywood hearing loss: ‘Speak up! “Die Hard” messed with Dad’s ears.’ Later that unresponsiveness broadened, and I sometimes took it personally.”

Source: Comingsoon.net