Bruce Willis and Rumer Willis. (Photograph by Getty)
Rumer Willis has shared a brand new well being replace about her dad, Bruce Willis, amid his dementia battle.
The actress responded to a fan query concerning the Die Arduous star by way of Instagram Tales on Thursday, August 22.
“He’s nice. I like him a lot. Thanks,” Rumer, 35, wrote as she shared a photograph of the father-daughter duo holding fingers.
Bruce’s household shared in 2022 that the Sixth Sense actor, 69, had been identified with aphasia, a dysfunction that impacts how an individual is ready to talk.
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“To Bruce’s wonderful supporters, as a household we needed to share that our beloved Bruce has been experiencing some well being points and has lately been identified with aphasia, which is impacting his cognitive talents,” the household wrote in an announcement shared by way of Instagram in March 2022. “On account of this and with a lot consideration Bruce is stepping away from the profession that has meant a lot to him.”
A 12 months later, the household shared that Bruce’s situation had progressed to a “extra particular analysis: frontotemporal dementia (often known as FTD).”
FTD is an “umbrella time period for a gaggle of mind illnesses that primarily have an effect on the frontal and temporal lobes of the mind” – areas which can be “related to character, conduct and language,” in line with Mayo Clinic.
Along with Rumer, Bruce additionally shares daughters Scout, 33, and Tallulah, 30 with Demi Moore, 61, and is father to daughters, Mabel, 12, and Evelyn, 10, with spouse Emma Heming – all of whom have rallied across the star since his analysis.
“This expertise has introduced the entire household even nearer collectively,” a supply solely shared with Us Weekly in December 2023. “Nobody is aware of how a lot time Bruce has left, in order that they’re absorbing each second they get with him.”
Within the candid fan Q&A on Instagram, Rumer additionally divulged that she had cut up together with her boyfriend Dereck Richard Thomas.
The previous couple share 1-year-old daughter, Louetta, and Rumer stated she was now “single-moming it and coparenting.”
Rumer Willis and musician Derek Richard Thomas debuted their romance practically one month earlier than asserting they have been anticipating their first little one. The twosome posed for a collection of photographs collectively, shared by way of Instagram in November 2022, by which the guitarist kissed the 90210 alum’s cheek. “♥️🦞🐞🪱🦧♥️,” Willis and Thomas captioned their joint social media add. […]
Rumer beforehand shared particulars about her dad’s candy bond together with his granddaughter.
“He’s so good. I really bought to see him proper earlier than I got here out [to New York],” Rumer stated on the As we speak present in Might. “And Lou is simply beginning to stroll somewhat bit, and he or she was strolling over to him, and it was so candy.”
The Sorority Row star added that seeing her dad and mother’s interactions together with her daughter introduced again fond reminiscences of her personal childhood.
“He’s a woman dad, by means of and thru. I noticed him with my sisters, my little sisters,” she stated. “Actually, seeing them [Bruce and Moore] together with her, it virtually unlocks all of those childhood reminiscences as a result of being a grandparent, I believe, is the most effective. They’ve all the love and pleasure with none of the tasks. They get to simply spoil her.”
