Bruce Willis’ wife shares emotional 17th anniversary post amid his battle with dementia: ‘I’d do it all over again’
Bruce Willis wife Emma Heming Willis has opened up about her “unconditional love” for the actor as he battles frontotemporal dementia.
On , the 46-year-old model shared an emotional Instagram post to mark the couple’s 17th anniversary. The post featured a throwback photo of Willis, 61, and Emma beaming and holding each other as they posed standing in the ocean as the sun set behind them. The picture she shared was taken at Parrot Cay in the Turks and Caicos Islands, where the couple tied the knot in 2009.
“17 years of us,” Emma began her caption, adding a red heart emoji. “Anniversaries used to bring excitement – now, to be honest, they stir up all the feels, leaving a heaviness in the heart and a pit in the stomach.”
Bruce Willis’ wife Emma Heming Willis shared an emotional post on the occasion of their 17th anniversary. (Getty/Emma Heming Willis Instagram)
She continued: “I give myself 30 minutes to sit in the ‘why him, why us’, to feel the anger and the sadness. Then I shake it off and go back to what is. And what is… is unconditional love. I feel blessed to I know that, and for him I would do it all over and over again in the blink of an eye.”
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In March 2022, Willis stepped away from Hollywood after being diagnosed with aphasia. His family announced in February 2023 that the actor had aphasia progressed to frontotemporal dementia.
The “Die Hard” star and Emma first met in 2007 and went public with their romance in January 2008 when the “Perfect Stranger” actress accompanied Willis to the premiere of his film “What Just Happened?” at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
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In a December 2022 Instagram post, Emma shared a throwback video in which she and Willis were seen having fun in the snow during winter break.
“It was that winter, 15 years ago, I fell on my head [over] in love with him #loveofmylife,” Emma wrote in the caption.
In a December 2020 interview with People magazine, the couple recalled their first meeting.
“I would do it all over again in a heartbeat.”
“When we first met, I was surprised by how charming and witty he was – and extremely handsome,” said the former Victoria’s Secret Angel. – That was my first thought of you.
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“I was already in love with her,” the “Sixth Sense” actor said.
They were married on March 21, 2009 at their home in Turks and Caicos and tied the knot again six days later in Beverly Hills. The couple had a daughter, Mabel, in 2012, and a daughter, Evelyn, in 2014.
Emma and Willis met in 2007 and got married in 2009. (James Devaney/GC Images)
On Dec. 22, Emma shared a glimpse into Willis’ life as a family man ahead of the holidays.
In a series of Instagram stories, Emma posted family photos of Willis spending time with Mabel and Evelyn.
Among the pictures was a black-and-white picture of Heming and Willis with their daughters, along with which she wrote: “Them. Always.” In the photo, the couple is smiling as they gaze lovingly into each other’s eyes, while Mabel and Evelyn sit on their laps.
In addition to the two children with Heming, Willis shares with his ex-wife three adult daughters, Rumer (36), Scout (33) and Tallulah (30). Demi Moore. The former couple divorced in 2000. The rest are close friends and co-parents.
The mixed family celebrated holidays and vacations together. Moore, Emma and their daughters with Willis are also united in the fight against Willis’ dementia.
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In an interview with Town & Country in October, Heming said he did early symptoms of his dementia were fired because he struggled with stuttering as a child.
“He stuttered a lot as a child,” she explained. “Bruce had always stuttered, but he was good at hiding it. As his language began to change, [seemed like it] it was just part of the stuttering, it was just Bruce.”
A mixed family often celebrates holidays together. (Instagram Demi Moore)
According to the National Institute on Aging, frontotemporal dementia occurs “as a result of damage to neurons in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain,” and symptoms include “unusual behaviors, emotional problems, communication problems, difficulty working, or difficulty walking.”
At the 2024 Hamptons International Film Festival, Moore addressed her ex-husband’s health issues.
“You know, I’ve said this before. Sickness is what sickness is,” the star of “The Substance” told the crowd while accepting a career achievement award, according to People magazine. “And I think you have to be in a real deep acceptance of what it is. But for where he is, he’s stable.”
She also shared insight into how she and the rest of the family have learned to work with his diagnosis in their interactions with him, explaining that you have to “ just meet them where they are,” because “when you stick to what was, I think it’s a lost game.”
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