Bruce Willis' dementia has been described in new court filings as leaving the actor 'extremely ill' in Los Angeles, where, according to documents obtained by US outlet In Touch, his daughter Rumer Willis alleges her former partner has disrupted her efforts to visit him. The 37-year-old, who now lives in Sun Valley, Idaho, claims in the papers that disputes with ex-boyfriend Derek Richard Thomas over their three-year-old daughter have repeatedly affected her time with her father.
Bruce Willis' family announced in 2022 that the Die Hard star had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, a degenerative brain condition. Since then, his relatives, including ex-wife Demi Moore and their daughters, have largely controlled the public narrative, sharing carefully selected photographs and brief updates while asking for privacy. The new court documents, filed as part of a custody dispute, are among the starkest on the record descriptions yet that his condition has advanced, though no independent medical records are included and nothing in them has been confirmed publicly by Bruce's representatives.
