Legendary actor Bruce Willis had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD). FTD symptoms often arise in younger patients between the ages of 40 and 65, according to the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
During the filming sessions in which the actor was present, people present could already sense that something was not right. He had difficulty in holding conversations, coupled with not being able to connect words correctly. The actor who featured in ‘Pulp Fiction’, ‘Armageddon’, ‘Die Hard’ and ‘The Sixth Sense’, has been getting worse and his family and friends have been responsible for giving updates on his health.
Willis has been living away from the public eye since then and is devoting himself full time to his family, who take care of his care and are by his side via Marca.
One of his family members is Tallulah, his 29-year-old daughter, and she has given an interview in which she revealed details of the day-to-day life of the ‘Die Hard’ star since he was diagnosed.
“These days, my dad can be reliably found on the first floor of the house, somewhere in the big open plan of the kitchen-dining-living room, or in his office,” she told Vogue.
“Thankfully, dementia has not affected his mobility.”
Apparently, one of those rooms that Bruce Willis likes to be in contains some elements that help the former actor to remember some names or important events.
“That office has always been a kind of window into what he’s most interested in at any given moment,” she explained.
“Recently I found a scrap of paper there on which he had written, simply, ‘Michael Jordan’.
“I wish I knew what he was thinking.
“The room is filled with the knicknacks he has collected: vintage toy cars, coins, rocks, objects made of brass.
“He likes things that feel heavy in the hand, that he can spin around in his fingers. There’s always music playing.”
