Fans of Bruce Willis were heartbroken when it was announced the Die Hard star would be retiring from acting due to an ongoing battle with aphasia which was then updated to include frontotemporal dementia. While fans only learned of the initial diagnosis last year, his family now realizes that they saw the first signs of it years ago, including having a family joke regarding hearing loss that they blamed on Die Hard.
Bruce Willis’ daughter Tallulah Willis has a new piece in Vogue where she speaks candidly about her own struggles with mental health as well as her father’s current health. She says that the aphasia he’s dealing with now initially presented as what they thought was hearing loss. Willis would not respond when spoken to and they assumed it was the result of hearing loss from all the explosions from his action movies. Tallulah explained…
