Emma Heming Willis is sharing insight into her relationship with Bruce Willis .

The Unexpected Journey: Finding Hope and Purpose on the Caregiving Path author is detailed the difficult spots she and the Die Hard star faced ahead of his frontotemporal dementia (FTD) diagnosis in November 2022. In fact, at one point she considered filing for divorce from her husband since 2009.

"I felt like my marriage was crumbling," Emma—who shares daughters Mabel Willis , 13, and Evelyn Willis , 11, with Bruce—recalled to Vanity Fair in an interview published Sept. 5, adding that she noticed Bruce, now 70, acting differently during that time, which had her thinking, "'What is going on? This is not the person that I married. Something is just so off.'"

The 47-year-old, who called the

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