Bruce Willis’s wife says that the actor’s brain is “failing” three years after he retired due to frontotemporal dementia.

Emma Heming Willis is ready to talk about her experience taking care of the action star after her diagnosis in an interview with ABC News Diane Sawyer, broadcast on Tuesday night.

In a preview of the special that was broadcast on Tuesday “Good Morning America”, said that her 70 -year -old husband “is still very mobile” but that fights cognitively.

“Bruce has great health in general. It is only his brain that is failing him …” he told Sawyer. “Language goes, and we have learned to adapt. And we have a way of communicating with him, which is a different way.”

In 2023, Willis’s family announced that he lived with dementia and that he could no longer work as an actor. His diagnosis has severely limited his linguistic skills and it is also known that it causes changes in personality and behavior.

According to the centers for disease control and prevention, almost 7 million people in the United States have dementia, which is a general term for a series of conditions that can affect the memory, thought and behavior of one.

Bruce Willis and his wife Emma Heming Willis attend the premiere of
Bruce Willis and his wife Emma Heming Willis attend the premiere of “Motherless Brooklyn” in October 2019. In an interview that is broadcast on Tuesday night, Heming Willis will talk about his experience taking care of the actor after his diagnosis with frontotemporal dementia.

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Although her husband’s ability to speak, listen and understand the speech has decreased, the former model said that the personality of which the surfaces still fell in love from time to time.

“No days, but we have moments,” he revealed. “It’s his laugh, right? As, he has such an abundant laugh. And, you know, sometimes you will see that brightness in his eye, or that smile, and, you know, they transport me.

“And it’s hard to see, because as fast as those moments appear, then it goes,” Heming Willis continued. “It’s difficult, but I’m grateful. I am grateful that my husband is still a lot here.”

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Willis’s wife will deepen her life as a full -time caregiver in her next book, “the unexpected trip: find strength, hope and yourself on the way of care”, for its launch on September 9.