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Bruce Willis was seen sitting in the passenger seat of his car as he was taken for a drive through sunny Los Angeles this week amid his dementia battle. He withdrew from Hollywood in 2022 after being diagnosed with the brain condition aphasia, which causes the patient’s language abilities to deteriorate.
Last year, his family announced that his illness had ‘progressed’ and he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
The 69-year-old was spotted this week being driven around Studio City, which has become known as an enclave for people who work in entertainment.
Wearing a striped polo shirt with a blue collar, the Die Hard icon warded off the California rays with a black baseball cap.
Bruce has been surrounded by his close-knit blended family, who have rallied around him to help him cope with his health struggles.
He has been married since 2009 to model Emma Heming, 46, with whom he shares his two younger daughters Mabel, 12, and Evelyn, 10.
The Red star also shares a friendly rapport with his ex-wife Demi Moore, the mother of his elder three daughters Rumer, 36, Scout, 33, and Tallulah, 30.
Last weekend, Demi shared an update on Bruce’s condition while speaking onstage at the 2024 Hamptons International Film Festival.
‘You know, I’ve said this before. The disease is what the disease is. And I think you have to be in real deep acceptance of what that is. But for where he’s at, he’s stable,’ Demi said in a conversation with moderator Alina Cho, according to People.
Demi had seen Bruce two days prior to her film festival appearance, when he enjoyed a visit with Rumer’s daughter Louetta, one – his first grandchild.
She makes a point of finding quality time with Bruce, holding onto the idea of ‘being able to share with whatever we have, for however long we have.’
Demi also shared her advice on having a loved one with dementia, saying: ‘What I always encourage is to just meet them where they’re at.’
She added: ‘When you’re holding on to what was, I think it’s a losing game. But when you show up to meet them where they’re at, there is great beauty and sweetness.’
Glenn Gordon Caron, who created Bruce’s star-making 1980s sitcom Moonlighting, observed last October that he was losing his ‘joie de vivre’ and ‘language skills.’
‘My sense is the first one to three minutes he knows who I am,’ said Glenn in a devastating interview with the New York Post.
‘He’s not totally verbal; he used to be a voracious reader – he didn’t want anyone to know that – and he’s not reading now.’
