Emma Heming says Bruce Willis’ anniversary brings ‘heaviness’
Emma Heming and Bruce Willis.
(Photo by Getty)Bruce Willis’ woman Emma Heming gets candid about the reality of having ‘unconditional love’ for her partner amid the actor’s dementia battle.
Heming, 46, celebrated the couple’s 17th anniversary by sharing her mixed feelings about the day via Instagram on Sunday, December 29.
“17 years of us ❤️,” Heming wrote alongside a throwback photo of the couple. “Birthdays always brought excitement. If I’m honest, they’re stirring up all the feelings right now, leaving a heavy feeling in my heart and a pit in my stomach. I give myself 30 minutes to sit in the “why him, why us,” to feel the anger and the sadness.
She continued: “Then I shake it off and return to what is. And what is… is unconditional love. I feel blessed to know, and it’s because of him. I would do it again and again in a heartbeat 💞”
Emma Heming Willis shared a new update on her husband Bruce Willis’ battle with frontotemporal dementia. Heming Willis, 45, discussed the disease on the Monday, September 25, episode of Today in honor of World Frontotemporal Dementia Awareness Week, revealing that it’s “hard to know” whether Willis, 68, is aware of his dementia. “What I teach is […]
The couple started dating in 2007 – two years after Willis, 69, and first wife Demi Moore62, divorced – and exchanged vows two years later.
Willis and Heming welcomed two daughters together: Mabel, 12, and Evelyn, 10. Die hard star also shares three daughters – Roemer, 36, Scout, 33 and Tallulah30 – with Moore.
The Sixth sense The actor’s family shared in 2022 that Willis had been diagnosed with aphasia, a condition that affects how a person can communicate.
According to Mayo Clinic, frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is an “umbrella term for a group of brain diseases that primarily affect the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain” – areas “associated with personality, behavior and language.”
Heming recently opened its doors City & Country about how she dealt with the reality of being married to Bruce as he continues his health journey.
“Today I am much better than when we first got the FTD diagnosis,” Heming told the newspaper in October. “I’m not saying it’s easier, but I’ve had to get used to what’s happening so I can be rooted in what is so I can support our children. I’m trying to find the balance between the grief and sadness I feel, which can burst open at any moment, and finding joy.”
In the interview, Heming also shared insight into why some of his early health condition symptoms were initially overlooked.
“Bruce has always had a stutter, but he has been good at covering it up,” she explained. “When his language started to change, it changed [seemed like it] was just part of a stutter, it was just Bruce.
A bittersweet celebration. Bruce Willis’ wife, Emma Heming Willis, got emotional as he celebrated his 68th birthday following his dementia diagnosis. The 44-year-old model took to her Instagram Story on Sunday, March 19, to give fans an update on how she’s coping with her husband’s health struggles. “I started the morning crying if you can […]
Heming added that she was not aware that this could be a sign of something like dementia, given Willis’ relatively young age.
“Never in a million years would I think it would be a form of dementia for someone that young,” Heming said.
She continued: ‘For Bruce it started in his temporal lobes and then spread to the front part of his brain. It attacks a person’s ability to walk, think and make decisions. I say FTD whispers, but doesn’t shout. It’s hard for me to say, ‘This is where Bruce ended up, and this is where his illness started to take over.’ He was diagnosed two years ago, but a year earlier we had a loose diagnosis of aphasia, which is a symptom of a disease but is not the disease.
