Demi Moore Shares Update on Bruce Willis Amid Battle With Dementia

Demi Moore is keeping a positive outlook on her ex-husband Bruce Willis’ condition.

Demi, 61, opened up about the Die Hard star’s battle with frontotemporal dementia and aphasia years after he was initially diagnosed.

"You know, I've said this before. The disease is what the disease is,” the A Few Good Men actress said on Oct. 13 while speaking with a crowd at the 2024 Hamptons International Film Festival per People. “And I think you have to be in real deep acceptance of what that is. But for where he's at, he is stable."

Demi, who shares Rumer Willis, 36, Scout Willis, 33, and Tallulah Willis, 30, with her ex, repeated her advice to her and Bruce’s daughters, saying, "What I always encourage is to just meet them where they're at. 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."

And despite her split from Bruce, 67, in 2000, Demi noted that she still gets plenty of quality time with her ex, who remarried Emma Heming Willis in 2009. After all, the blended Willis family, which also includes Bruce and Emma’s daughters Mabel, 12, and Evelyn, 10, have shared plenty of glimpses into their sweet bond over the years.

“I was there two days ago with my granddaughter,” Demi said, referencing Rumer’s 17-month-old daughter Louetta. “And being able to share with whatever we have, for however long we have it.”

The family went public with Bruce’s diagnosis in 2022, revealing that he was stepping away from acting as he battled frontotemporal dementia. Since then, they’ve kept fans up to date on his well-being.

“He’s doing stable, which in this situation is good, and it’s hard,” Tallulah said during a Sept. 18 appearance on the Today show. “There’s painful days, but there’s so much love. And it’s really shown me to not take any moment for granted.”

Shortly after, Tallulah shared sweet photos of herself and her dad to Instagram on Sept. 30, writing, “Hey I love this guy so much and feeling feelings is tough stuff, but I’m so grateful to let them flow through me now instead of disconnecting from it! From the forever archives.”

For more from Bruce's sweet family moments, read on. 

"Oh Daddio, to be loved by you is such a gift," Rumer Willis wrote in an Instagram tribute to her father in March 2024. "You are the funniest, most tender, charming, out of this world silly talented and magical papa. Looking through these photos this morning I am just filled with the deepest gratitude that we chose to spend this life together. I am your first baby and man sometimes I wish I could be tiny enough to just cozy up on your chest again and laugh and cuddle you."

She continued, "I love you so deep in my bones I don’t know how my muscles hold them. You are the greatest papa I could ever hope for. Thank you for your generosity, your silliness and heart. Lou loves you so big. Happy Birthday Daddio."

Love is a beautiful thing," the actor's wife Emma Heming Willis wrote on Instagram, almost exactly one year after his family announced his frontotemporal dementia diagnosis. "Wishing you all a Happy Valentine’s Day."

In February 2024, Demi Moore shared this pic of her ex-husband with the youngest of the three daughters they share together, writing, "Showering our @buuski with love today on her 30th birthday."

In November 2023, the actor celebrated his first Thanksgiving since being diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia earlier that year. His wife Emma shared this photo from Bruce's 68th birthday party from March.

"I’m grateful and thankful to know this kind of love," she wrote. "Wishing you all a Happy Thanksgiving."

Bruce Willis stepped out with Emma to celebrate the release of Demi's 2019 memoir Inside Out. He is joined by his three daughters with the G.I. Jane actress, Rumer Willis, Scout Willis and Tallulah Willis.

Bruce and Emma appear on a hike with their daughters Evelyn Willis and Mabel Willis.

The actor posed with his ex-wife and their daughters Rumer and Tallulah backstage at his Comedy Central roast in 2018.

Bruce became a grandpa in April 2023 when Rumer welcomed a baby girl named Louetta.

The entire family got together to celebrate the birth of Rumer's baby.

Bruce had two special vistors when he starred in Broadway's Misery in 2016.

The family showed up in full force to support Rumer's 2015 Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in Chicago.

"I put my camera on a ladder, set the timer, and crossed my fingers," Emma captioned this family Christmas photo. "Now that’s 2020 for you."

Bruce took his three oldest daughters to the Over the Hedge premiere in 2006.

The dad of five shared a sweet moment with daughter Mabel.

Tallulah, Scout and Rumer joined their dad at a Bruce Willis Charity Foundation in 2005.

The family celebrated Rumer's Dancing With the Stars win with Val Chmerkovskiy.

"What a privilege it is every day to be your daughter," Rumer captioned this throwback photo. "I love you so much. You are the coolest cat in town."

Emma rang in her 43rd birthday in 2021 with Bruce and their daughters, as well as Rumer and Demi.

The family spent Christmas 2022 together.

Bruce was joined by mom Marlene and his three oldest daughters when he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006.

The action star dressed up with Mabel and Evelyn on Halloween 2021.

Tallulah jokingly captioned this photo of herself and dad Bruce making silly faces, "high drama club."

Evelyn and Mabel hit the slopes during a family ski trip.

The family, including Demi's then-husband Ashton Kutcher, stepped out to watch Rumer in 2008's The House Bunny.

Bruce and Emma took their kids to Walt Disney World in 2017.

"First time performing in a play for these two!" Emma wrote on Instagram 2018. "Mabel played Molly and Evelyn as Sandy in an Off-off-off-off-off-off Broadway [winking emoji] production of Annie. The whole cast and production was stellar—Mom and Dad couldn’t be prouder."