Emma Heming Willis is opening up about her husband, beloved actor Bruce Willis ’ dementia, telling ABC News’ Diane Sawyer in an interview set to air on Tuesday night that the former Hollywood superstar’s brain is failing him, despite being a healthy man otherwise.

The 70-year-old Die Hard actor’s decades in television and Hollywood movies came to an abrupt end when, in 2023, his diagnosis with frontotemporal dementia was announced by his family. FTD is an umbrella term for a group of brain diseases that primarily affect the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, according to the Mayo Clinic. Symptoms include changes in personality, indifference, socially inappropriate behavior, and, in Willis’ case, the loss of language.

Emma Heming Willis is opening up about her husband, beloved

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