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Emma Heming Willis opens up about early signs something was going on with Bruce Willis' health

When his childhood stutter returned, she knew something was wrong

But despite his limited speech, "I feel like our love story has only grown and developed more," says Emma

Way before Bruce Willis was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia ( FTD ) in November 2022, there were early signs something was amiss. Always a devoted and charismatic husband and fun-loving dad, Bruce, 70, was becoming uncharacteristically removed and experiencing language issues, including the return of a childhood stutter.

What he and his wife Emma Heming Willis , 49, didn't know at the time was that he was exhibiting tell-tale symptoms of primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a variant of FTD. "FT

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