Bruce Willis’ wife, Emma Heming Willis, opened up about the years of heartbreak and uncertainty she faced before the actor’s health diagnosis.
In a new interview with Vanity Fair, the model admitted that she even considered divorcing Willis at one point.
“I felt like my marriage was crumbling,” Heming Willis shared.
She admitted that she thought to herself, “‘What is going on? This is not the person that I married. Something is just so off.’ And I just couldn’t figure it out.”
Heming Willis previously spoke about the “chaotic” two years before Willis’ diagnosis, and said she first noticed things were off when “annoying” miscommunications eventually shifted into major personality changes.
“That instinct made me realize that we should go to the doctor,” the now-47-year-old told Oprah Winfrey during an interview on her podcast earlier this month.
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“I finally understood that those crazy marital issues were not Bruce,” she explained. “Neither were those off moments and subtle shifts in his personality. They were the result of his brain being dismantled, taking part of the husband I knew and loved with it.”
When the “Sixth Sense” actor was eventually diagnosed with aphasia ― a condition that impairs the ability to communicate ― in 2022, things began to add up.
The next year, he was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.
Willis’ ex-wife, Demi Moore, also opened up to Winfrey about what it’s been like to see the man she shares three children with change amid his health battle.
“It’s difficult. It’s hard to see somebody who was so, you know, vibrant and strong and so directed shift into this other parts of themself,” Moore said.
