Tallulah, daughter of Bruce Willis, assures that the actor still recognizes her

Since it was announced that Bruce Willis would retire from acting due to frontotemporal dementia, which he has suffered for some time, his health has been declining and it is worrying given the few treatment options to combat the disease he suffers from. the actor.

Although they have tried to raise awareness in the press regarding the state of health of the protagonist of Hard to Kill and to keep the general public informed regarding the details of Willis’s condition, recently, Tallulah, the American actor’s youngest daughter with Demi Moore, spoke and revealed what it has been like to face her father’s illness.

Photo of Tallulah Willis lying on the grass

During an interview shared in a magazine article Voguethe daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis opened up about the difficulties they had as a family in accepting her father’s diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and shared some details of the impact that news had on her family.

Tallulah recalled how the first signs and symptoms that her father presented at the beginning of his illness were, a condition that was announced by the family as aphasia, a condition that makes it difficult for people to communicate and that was something that her father had been presenting for a long time. , since it began with a kind of vague response that the family attributed to hearing loss.

Tallulah Willis posing next to her father Bruce

Bruce Willis’s daughter opened up and said that during the first diagnoses and tests carried out on her father, she was dealing with her own health problems, since she was diagnosed with ADHD and borderline personality disorder, as well as an anorexia nervosa that she presented because of negative comments they made towards her body after accompanying her mother to an event.

I keep wandering between the present and the past when I talk about Bruce: he is, he was, he is, he was. That’s because I have hopes for my father that I refuse to let go. I admit that I have faced Bruce’s decline in recent years with a part of avoidance and denial that I am not proud of. The truth is, I was too sick myself to handle it.

Photograph of Tallulah Willis next to her mother Demi Moore

Assuring that it has not been easy at all to assimilate and face her father’s illness while facing her own sufferings, Tallulah recounted the time that at a wedding she broke down in tears when she realized that, unlike the bride, she would not have the fortune to for her father to give a moving speech in front of his guests, so from that moment she decided to support her dad and rebuild her relationship with the actor.

Since then, the 29-year-old has focused on capturing the most memories and recording even the smallest detail when she is in the company of her father. For this reason, she has voice messages from him saved on a hard drive and she tries to make each day better than the last and to enjoy each moment to the fullest.

Source: Okchicas

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