Emma Heming Shares Holiday Reality Amid Bruce Willis’ Dementia

Emma Hemming Willis She shares insight into what holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas look like like her husband’s Bruce Willis He continues to struggle with dementia.

talking to the people In an article published on Thursday, November 27, Hemming Willis, 47, gave a positive take on how she and her family are spending the holidays after… Die hard Star diagnosis.

“Bruce loved Christmas and we love celebrating it with him. It feels different, so we kind of adapted to that,” she told the outlet at the End Well 2025 conference in Los Angeles, which took place last week.

“You have to learn, adapt, make new memories, and bring the same traditions you had before,” the model added.

She continued: “Life goes on. It goes on. Dementia is hard, but there’s still joy in it. I think it’s important not to paint such a negative picture about dementia. We still laugh. There’s still joy. It just feels different.”

Bruce’s family revealed that he was first diagnosed with aphasia, a language disorder, in March 2022. The following year, they announced that his condition had progressed to frontotemporal dementia, a progressive brain disease that affects communication, behavior and mobility.

Last week, Bruce’s daughter RomerThe 37-year-old shared an update on her father’s health on her Instagram account. (Bruce shares Rumer with his ex-wife Demi MooreWith the girls searchlight34 y Tallulah31 years old. Bruce and Emma also have two daughters, Mabel, 13, and Evelyn, 11.)

A fan asked Rumer how her father was doing via a Q&A on Instagram, prompting her to respond.

“People always ask me that question and I think it’s hard to answer because the reality is that anyone with frontotemporal dementia is not well,” Romer answered. “But he’s fine as far as someone dealing with frontotemporal dementia, you know what I mean?”

She added: “The answer I will give is that I am very happy and grateful that I can still go and hug him.” “I’m so grateful that when I go there, and I hug him, whether he recognizes me or not, he feels the love that I give him and I can feel that from him. That I still see a spark of him, and he can feel the love that I give him.”

Hemming Willis previously shared that Bruce has been moved to a second home with a 24-hour care team as his condition progresses.

“It was one of the hardest decisions I’ve had to make to date,” Hemming Willis revealed during an ABC special called Emma and Bruce Willis: The Unexpected Journey – Diane Sawyer Special, which aired in August.

“But I knew, first and foremost, that Bruce wanted that for our daughters. You know, he wanted them to be in a home that was more suited to their needs, not his needs,” she added.

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In her memoirs, The Unexpected Journey: Finding Strength, Hope, and Yourself on the Path to Caregivingwhich was released in September, Hemming Willis shared how The Second Home helped.

“One of the benefits of getting help, whether you bring it into your home or have your person move into a community setting, is the ability to return to your original role in your person’s life,” Hemming Willis wrote.

Hemming-Willis admitted that it “took me a while to see it that way and reframe it instead of sitting in guilt,” adding that she can now “really enjoy our fleeting time together, and there’s absolutely nothing I can do to repay our care team for that.”

She added that she is “forever grateful to have Bruce again as his wife and that our children have their mother back.”