Bruce Willis’ heartbreaking life now, ‘non-verbal watching life through door’

Bruce Willis’ family are spending as much time with him as possible this Christmas.

The Die Hard actor spent his Thanksgiving surrounded by loved ones and is thought to be doing the same this festive period following his harrowing health diagnosis. His daughter Scout shared a video to Instagram last month as she spent quality time with her dad – showing them holding hands at a table.

His family announced last March that he had to step away from acting and earlier this year, they confirmed a more specific diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia. As the family celebrated Thanksgiving together, Bruce’s wife Emma Heming Willis shared a throwback photo of the whole family, including her and Bruce’s daughters Mabel and Evelyn, and his ex-wife Demi Moore and their daughters Rumer, Scout and Tallulah.

Expressing her gratitude for her blended family, she wrote: “I’m grateful and thankful to know this kind of love.” After revealing that Bruce had been diagnosed with language disorder aphasia in March 2022, the family confirmed in February that he had progressed to a frontotemporal dementia diagnosis. The disease has a typical life expectancy of between six and eight years, but can be as low as two years in some cases.

The US star is now largely unable to communicate, according to Glenn Gordon Caron, who created Bruce’s 1980’s ABC series, Moonlighting. He kept in contact with the star and his ex-wife, along with their three children. Caron told the Post that Bruce “now sees life through a screen door.”

However he believes Bruce can still recognise him in the first couple of minutes of meeting and says that deep down, he is still the man everyone knows and loves. “He’s not totally verbal; he used to be a voracious reader – he didn’t want anyone to know that – and he’s not reading now,” he added. “All those language skills are no longer available to him, and yet he’s still Bruce… you’re grateful that he’s there, but the joie de vivre is gone.”

A source close to the family claimed that Emma, 45, Demi, 61, Rumer, 35, Scout, 32, and Tallulah, 29, have been spending as much time as possible by his side alongside the younger girls Mabel, 11, and Evelyn, nine. They told US Weekly: “Bruce has good days and bad days, but in the last two months, there are many more bad days than good.

“This experience has brought the whole family even closer together. No one knows how much time Bruce has left, so they’re soaking up every moment they get with him. Bruce has around-the-clock care, but at least one family member is always with him.”

A further source then confirmed that the whole family is so determined to be with Bruce as much as possible that they are pretty much living together. They said: “They’re all there all the time. Once Bruce was diagnosed, everyone came together to keep his memory of the family intact and to be there as a constant reminder they love him. Everything revolves around him.”

Meanwhile Rumer, who has always had a very close personal relationship with her father, reportedly brings her eight-month-old daughter Louetta to spend time with Bruce. The second source revealed: “Rumer wants to make sure Louetta knows Bruce. She wants him to be actively involved in Louetta’s life. It’s a very special bond.

“Rumer and her sisters love their dad so much. They are very conscious that any day could be his last.” On Father’s Day, Rumer shared a photo of Bruce holding Louetta to her Instagram account saying: “Papa I’m so lucky to have you and so is Lou.”

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