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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Inga Parkel

Bruce Willis ‘not totally verbal’ after dementia diagnosis, Moonlighting creator reveals

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Bruce Willis’s battle with dementia has rendered him “not totally verbal”, Glenn Gordon Caron, the creator of Moonlighting has said, but the “joie de vivre” he was once known for is “gone”.

Last February, the 68-year-old Die Hard star’s family announced he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD). The news came nearly a year after they revealed he would be “stepping away” from acting following an initial aphasia diagnosis.

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