Demi Moore has nothing but love and respect for Emma Heming Willis.

In a Sept. 2 appearance on "The Oprah Podcast," the "Substance" actress praised the way that Bruce Willis' wife has been taking care of him amid his battle with frontotemporal dementia. Moore was married to the "Die Hard" star, 70, from 1987 to 2000 and has maintained a close relationship with him and Heming Willis.

"I have so much compassion for Emma in this, being a young woman," said Moore, 62. "There's no way that anybody could have anticipated where this was going to go. And I really think she's done a masterful job. She has been so dedicated to forging the right path. She's had equal amounts of fear and strength and courage in navigating this."

Moore noted "so much fell on Emma to really figure this whole thing out" after Willis' diagnosis, adding that the "most beautiful thing" was the way that Heming Willis has recognized "the importance for caregivers that they have to take care of themselves, and that if they don't put that time in to making sure that they're OK, that they then can't show up for anyone else."

The "Ghost" star went on to share that it has been "difficult" to see her ex-husband struggling. "It's hard to see somebody who was so vibrant and strong and so directed shift into this other parts of themselves," she said.

Moore's comments come after Heming Willis, 47, opened up in an ABC News interview with Diane Sawyer, where she revealed she has placed her husband in a new home with professional caregivers after his 2023 frontotemporal dementia diagnosis. She described this as "one of the hardest decisions" she had to make but said she "knew, first and foremost, Bruce would want that for our daughters," as he "would want them to be in a home that was more tailored to their needs, not his needs."

Heming Willis and Bruce Willis have been married since 2009, and they share two daughters: Mabel, 13, and Evelyn, 11. The actor also shares three children with Moore: Rumer, 37; Scout, 34; and Tallulah, 31.

After the ABC interview, Heming Willis took to Instagram to push back on critics of her caregiving.

"What I knew is that by sharing some of our intimate information that we would see these two camps," she said. "It would be people with an opinion versus people with an actual experience."

She continued that the comments she has received since the ABC interview aired show how quick people without caregiving experience are to judge caregivers, adding, "The opinions are so loud and they're so noisy, but if they don't have the experience of this, they don't get a say."

Contributing: Edward Segarra and Jay Stahl, USA TODAY

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