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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Olivia Hebert

Bruce Willis’ wife Emma Heming Willis says she is ‘not good’ amid his ongoing struggle with dementia

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Bruce Willis’ wife Emma Heming Willis has taken to social media to provide an emotional update about the actor’s struggle with dementia and her role as caregiver.

The Die Hard star was diagnosed this year with frontotemporal dementia (also known as FTD), which the National Institute on Aging describes as “the result of damage to neurons in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain”. Heming Willis has posted to social media informing the public that the actor’s condition was “not treatable” and “has progressed”.

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