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Emma Heming Willis Shares insights on holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas with her husband Bruce Willis The fight against dementia continues.
Speaking arrive people In a post published on Thursday, November 27, Heming Willis, 47, expressed a positive outlook on how she and her family spent the holidays Die Hard Celebrity diagnosis.
“Bruce loves Christmas and we love celebrating it with him. It looks different, so we’ve adapted,” she told media at the End Well 2025 conference in Los Angeles last week.
The model adds, “You have to learn, adapt, and create new memories, bringing with you the same traditions you had before.”
She continued, “Life goes on. Everything goes on. Dementia is hard, but there’s still joy in it. I think it’s important that we don’t paint such a negative picture around dementia. We still laugh. There’s still joy. It just looks different.”
Emma Heming Willis has opened up about the rocky journey to support her husband Bruce Willis’ health after he was diagnosed with aphasia and frontotemporal dementia. “Tis the summer of self-discovery — finding new hobbies, stepping out of your comfort zone and staying active,” Heming Willis wrote on Instagram in August (…)
Bruce’s family revealed that he was first diagnosed with aphasia, a language disorder, in March 2022. The following year, they announced his condition Has developed frontotemporal lobe dementiaa progressive brain disease that affects communication, behavior, and mobility.
Last week, Bruce’s daughter rumor37, Shared an update on her father’s health via her Instagram. (Bruce shares Rumer with his ex-wife Demi Moorewith the daughters reconnaissance34 and 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 an Instagram Q&A, and Rumer responded.
“People ask me this question all the time, and I think it’s a hard question to answer because the reality is that anyone with FTD does poorly,” Rumer responded. “But for someone with frontotemporal dementia, he’s doing pretty well, you know what I mean?”
Emma Heming Willis, Rumer Willis, Tallulah Willis, Bruce Willis and Scott Willis
Photo by Nelson Barnard/Getty Images for Comedy Central)“The answer I gave was that I was so happy and grateful that I could still go and hug him,” she added. “I’m grateful that when I walked out there, I gave him a hug and whether he knew me or not, he could feel the love that I gave him and I could feel it from him. I still see the spark in him and he can feel the love that I gave him.”
Hemming Willis previously shared that blues Moved to second home As his health deteriorated, he received help from a round-the-clock care team.
“This is by far one of the hardest decisions I’ve ever had to make,” Hemming-Willis told an ABC show titled ” Emma and Bruce Willis: An Unexpected Journey – Diane Sawyer Special, Aired in August.
She added, “But I know that, first and foremost, Bruce wanted the same for our daughters. You know, he wanted them to live in a home that was better suited to their needs, not his.”
Thanksgiving is an exciting holiday for the Willis family this year. Over the holiday weekend, Bruce Willis’ daughter Scott posted a touching video on Instagram of her and her famous father, who is battling frontotemporal dementia, an incurable brain disease that impairs speech and motor skills, holding hands at a table.
In her memoir, An unexpected journey: Finding strength, hope, and yourself on the road to nursingHeming Willis shared a post from September How does a second home help.
“One of the benefits of getting help is being able to return to your original role in life, whether you bring it home or move your person into a community setting,” writes Hemming Willis.
Hemming-Willis admitted that “it took me some time to see it that way and reframe it and not sit in guilt,” adding that she now “can really enjoy the short time we had together, and there’s nothing I can do for that to repay our care team.”
She added that she was “eternally grateful that I was able to enjoy Bruce as his wife again and that our children had their mom.”
