Bruce Willis’s daughter, Tallulah, is opening up about her grief and the journey she and her family have taken while caring for her father.
Earlier this year, Bruce’s family announced that he had been diagnosed with a form of dementia called frontotemporal dementia. The family had announced Bruce’s earlier diagnosis of aphasia and retirement in March 2022.
“But I’ve known something was wrong for a long time,” Tallulah writes in a vulnerable essay. He noticed that his father was sometimes unresponsive, but he thought it was due to hearing loss. “Talk loud! die hard it bothered daddy’s ears, he thought.Keep reading to know more…“I admit that I have met Bruce’s decline in recent years with a share of avoidance and denial that I am not proud of. [but] the truth is that I was too sick to handle it myself,” she said. Fashion, revealing her own struggle with body dysmorphia and anorexia nervosa. “I remember a moment when she hit me painfully: she was at a wedding…and the father of the bride gave a moving speech. I suddenly realized she would never get to that point, my dad talking about me coming of age at my wedding. It was devastating.”
“Every time I go to my father’s house, I take tons of photos looking for treasures in things that I never used to pay much attention to,” Tallulah said of how she is trying to preserve her father’s memories. “I have all of his voicemails saved on a hard drive. I find that I am trying to document, to build a record for the day when he is not there to remind me of him and us. He still knows who I am and lights up when he walks into the room.”
Now, Tallulah admits that it’s hard for her to see her father. “I keep switching between the present and the past when I talk about Bruce: he is, he was, he is, he was. That’s because I have hopes for my father that I refuse to let go.”
If you didn’t see it, Arnold Schwarzenegger recently spoke about Bruce Willis’ retirement from acting due to dementia.
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