Bruce Willis’ wife, Emma Heming, feels ‘anger’ on anniversary
Bruce Willis’s wife is speaking out on their 17th anniversary.
Emma Heming Willis, 46, took to social media for an emotional and candid acknowledgement of celebrating the day with Bruce, 69, amid his dementia health battle.
“17 years of us,” Emma began her Instagram post, adding a heart emoji.
She continued, “Anniversaries used to bring excitement. Now, if I’m honest, they stir up all the feelings, leaving a heaviness in my heart and a pit in my stomach. I give myself 30 minutes to sit in the ‘why him, why us,’ to feel the anger and grief.”
Bruce, 69, retired from acting in 2022, after initially being diagnosed with aphasia. In February 2023, “The Sixth Sense” actor’s family further revealed that his condition had worsened and that he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.
“Moonlighting” creator Glenn Gordon Caron, who is still friends with Willis, told the Post in 2023 that the actor is not “totally verbal.”
“He used to be a voracious reader — he didn’t want anyone to know that — and he’s not reading now,” said Caron.
“All those language skills are no longer available to him, and yet he’s still Bruce.”
Heming continued her post by writing, “Then I shake it off and return to what is. And what is… is unconditional love. I feel blessed to know it, and it’s because of him. I’d do it all over again and again in a heartbeat.”
Emma and Bruce reportedly met in 2007 at their mutual trainer’s gym in 2007. They tied the knot in 2009. They have two daughters together — Mabel, 12, and Evelyn, 10 — and she’s also the stepmother to Willis’ three daughters with his ex-wife, Demi Moore, 62: Rumer, 36, Scout, 33, and Tallulah, 30.
In an October interview with Town & Country, Heming said, “His disease is misdiagnosed, it’s missed, it’s misunderstood, so finally getting to a diagnosis was key so that I could learn what frontotemporal dementia is and I could educate our children.”
She added, “I’ve never tried to sugarcoat anything for them. They’ve grown up with Bruce declining over the years. I’m not trying to shield them from it.”
The “Die Hard” star’s family members have given gradual updates on his health since his diagnosis, including Moore, who maintains a friendly relationship with her ex-husband and his current wife.
Last November, Tallulah reflected on her dad’s “really aggressive” and “very rare” diagnosis while appearing on “The Drew Barrymore Show.”
“He is the same, which I think in this regard I’ve learned is the best thing you can ask for,” she said at the time. “I see love when I’m with him, and it’s my dad and he loves me, which is really special.”
