For Emma Heming Willis, the early signs of Bruce Willis’s dementia symptoms didn’t immediately point to a medical condition. Instead, she believed the subtle changes she noticed were problems within their marriage. His stutter returned, conversations began to drift, and their relationship shifted in ways she couldn’t explain.
According to Fox News, Emma revealed that what she was experiencing at the time felt like miscommunication and distance, not disease. “It’s very gray to know where Bruce stopped and where his disease kicked in,” she admitted. When the official diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia came in November 2022, the confusion suddenly made sense.
Coming to Terms With Bruce Willis’s Dementia Symptoms
Emma confessed that the early days left her feeling frustrated, unsure why h