Since stepping away from the spotlight due to health issues, Bruce Willis’ family has regularly shared updates about the actor’s wellbeing.

In March 2022, Willis was diagnosed with aphasia, a condition that makes it writing and speaking difficult. A year later, the family announced the “Die Hard” star’s condition had progressed and he’d been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia , or FTD. This degenerative disease primarily affects communication and behavior, as opposed to memory, like other types of dementia.

It all began when Willis’ speech patterns changed, his wife, Emma Heming Willis, told Town & Country in Oct. 2024 . Since Willis had a childhood stutter, however, Heming Willis chalked the change in his language up to that.

“As his language started changing, it (seemed like i

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