Demi Moore is opening on the emotional process of seeing Bruce Willis who once knew the change in the midst of his health decrease.

“It’s hard. It’s hard to see someone who was like that, you know, a vibrant and strong change and so addressed to these other parts of itself,” Moore said in a vulnerable interview in “The Oprah Podcast” on Tuesday.

“But you know, my particular perspective is one: I really always say that it is very important to know them where they are,” he shared. “Do not have an expectation that they need to be who they were or who you want to be. And when you do that, I find that there is an incredible sweetness and something that is soft, tender and loving.”

Willis, who was married to Moore from 1987 to 2000, was diagnosed with apasia, affecting the ability to communicate, three years ago.

The actor was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia the following year.

Demi Moore and Bruce Willis together in 1994.
Demi Moore and Bruce Willis together in 1994.

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Moore added that “the most important place for me is to appear and be present.”

“Because if you project where you are going, you just create anxiety. If you reproduce where you were and what you have lost, you only create anxiety and pain,” he explained. “And so, when you keep present, there is a lot. And there is still a lot of it there. And it may not always be verbal, but it is beautiful given the Givens.”

During the interview, Moore also praised Willis’s current wife, Emma Heming Willis, for her role in the health management and care of the actor.

Emma Heming Willis, on the left, Rumer Willis, Bruce Willis, Tallulah Willis, Demi Moore and the Scout Willis pose behind the stage while Rumer makes her debut on Broadway as Roxie Hart in
Emma Heming Willis, on the left, Rumer Willis, Bruce Willis, Tallulah Willis, Demi Moore and Scout Willis pose behind the stage when Rumer makes her debut on Broadway as Roxie Hart in “Chicago” on September 21, 2015 in New York City.

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Heming Willis has been opened about the struggles and anguish that entails being a caregiver, something he is channeling in his next book, “The unexpected trip.”

The former model also spoke recently about “one of the most difficult decisions” he has had to do in the midst of Willis decrease: move the actor to a separate home for 24/7 attention.

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“I knew in the first place, Bruce would like that for our daughters,” he shared an interview with Diane Sawyer. “He would want them to be in a house that was more adapted to their needs, not to their needs.”

Willis and Heming Willis have two daughters together: Mabel, 13, and Evelyn, 11.