Bruce Willis wife Emma Heming has sharp 2-word message to critics amid his dementia diagnosis
Topics: Bruce Willis, Dementia, Celebrity, News
Niamh Shackleton
Featured Image Credit: Michael Kovac/Getty Images for End Well Project
Topics: Bruce Willis, Dementia, Celebrity, News
Emma Heming Willis received a round of applause after sharing her two-word message to any critics she has.
Emma is the wife of Die Hard star Bruce Willis. The pair tied the knot in 2009, nine years after the actor's divorce from Demi Moore, and share two daughters together. Meanwhile Willis, 70, also has three daughters with Moore.
The family are extremely close knit and were completely rocked when Willis was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in 2023.
Emma, 47, has been his main caregiver since and had make the difficult decision to house Willis in a separate property to their family home.
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The decision to live apart from Willis sparked backlash, but Emma insists that his new home — located close by to where she lives with their daughters — is 'filled with love, and warmth, and care, and laughter'.
Addressing the backlash in August, Emma said: "What I knew is that by sharing some of our intimate information that we would see these two camps. It would be people with an opinion versus people with an actual experience.
"Nothing changes an opinion quite as powerfully as when you have an experience."
The 47-year-old continued: "Even if someone is closely familiar with dementia or the condition you are caring for, they aren't in your home, so they don't know how your person is behaving or your family dynamics."
Now Emma has discussed the criticism she's faced further in a conversation with Drake & Josh and Community actress Yvette Nicole Brown.
Like Willis, Brown's father has dementia and she is one of his caregivers.
Brown asked Emma how she feels about people's negative opinions during at talk at this year's End Well conference in Los Angeles.
"F**k 'em, as Bruce would say," she replied while laughing.
Elsewhere in the chat, Brown shared how she felt when she heard about the backlash Emma received after revealing that she was living separately from Willis.
The actress said: "I tell you, when I heard about the house thing, I wanted to throw elbows for you, honey. Because the thing is, what people don’t understand who aren’t caregivers, is that every caregivee is different, especially if you’re dealing with dementia or alzheimer’s, it’s very unwieldy.
"And we all are doing our best and making the best decisions for your family. So when they came for you, I wanted to come for them."
If you've been affected by dementia or Alzheimer's and would like to speak with someone in confidence, contact the Alzheimer's Association via 800.272.3900 open 24 hours seven days a week.