Rumer Willis is sharing another heart-wrenching update about her dad, Bruce Willis.
The “Die Hard” star now has frontotemporal dementia, a progressive brain disorder, after first being diagnosed with aphasia in 2022. His eldest daughter struggled on Friday to describe how her father was doing.
“People always ask me this question,” she said in an Instagram Q&A session. “And I think it’s kind of a hard one to answer, because the truth is that anybody with FTD is not doing great. But he’s doing OK in terms of somebody who’s dealing with frontotemporal dementia, you know what I mean?”
The 37-year-old noted that she could just say, “He’s doing great,” but explained that “those parameters don’t really work anymore.” She elaborated in a separate Instagram Story on Friday.
“The answer that I would give is that I’m so happy and grateful that I still get to go and hug him,” she said. “I’m so grateful that when I go over there and give him a hug, whether he recognizes me or not, that he can feel the love I’ve given him and I can feel it back.”
