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Bruce Willis’s wife, emma heming willisThere are mixed feelings between your husband this holiday season. dementia diagnosis,
70 year old actor The family announced in 2023 that he had been diagnosed Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD)Only a year later he said he was “stepping away” from acting. because he had aphasia,
Since announcing her husband’s diagnosis, Heming Willis has often spoken about his health and how it has affected their two daughters, 13-year-old Mabel Ray and 11-year-old Evelyn Penn.
In a blog post shared Saturday titled “The Holidays Looks Different Now,” she wrote about how her feelings and holiday traditions have changed since her husband’s diagnosis.
“Traditions that once seemed somewhat spontaneous now require planning— Very Of the plan. Heming Willis, who once brought simple happiness, may become entangled in a web of sorrow. die Hard the star’s primary caregiver wrote.
“I know this because I’m living it. Yet despite this, there can still be meaning. There can still be warmth. There can still be joy. I’ve learned that when dementia enters your life the holidays don’t disappear. They change.”
She recalled her husband’s holiday traditions, including how he would make pancakes in the morning and go out in the snow and play with their young daughters. Although Heming Willis’ family no longer has that holiday routine, the actor’s dementia “doesn’t erase those memories.”
He also told how his grief has manifested in unexpected ways this year.
Heming Willis wrote, “It can come while taking out decorations from the store, wrapping a gift, or listening to a familiar song. It can stop you in the middle of a room full of people, or in a quiet moment when everyone else is asleep.”
As she realizes how different the holidays will look this year, she said she’s making room for new memories with her family, without erasing the old ones.
“There is a misconception that if the holidays weren’t what they were, they would be hollow. But meaning doesn’t require everything to remain the same. It requires connection. This holiday season, our family will still bring gifts and sit together over breakfast. But instead of Bruce making our favorite pancakes, I would,” she concluded. “There will be laughter and hugs. And there will almost certainly be tears as we mourn And Make room for joy.”
Heming Willis’ blog post comes a month after he addressed criticism about the transfer Willis is out of his family home reason for The degenerative nature of his condition.
“F***m! As Bruce would say,” she told the audience in November at End Well 2025, a Los Angeles conference focused on end-of-life care.
She became emotional when she confessed that she was forced to do it “Impossible Decision” In the wake of her husband’s diagnosis.
“I didn’t imagine my life to be like this,” she said, crying. “So I had to make the best and safest decision for our family. And I knew, by being honest and open about it, it would be judged a lot more.”