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Demi Moore says Bruce Willis is ‘stable’ as he battles aphasia
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Demi Moore says Bruce Willis is ‘stable’ as he battles aphasia

Demi Moore has provided an update on Bruce Willis’ health, more than two years after the ‘Die Hard’ actor was diagnosed with aphasia.

Willis, 69, was diagnosed with aphasia, a cognitive disorder, in March 2022. Less than a year later, he was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, a degenerative brain disease that currently has no cure.

Moore said Sunday at the 2024 Hamptons International Film Festival that her ex-husband is “stable.” Accepting the fest’s career achievement as a tribute, “The Substance” star shared her update during a conversation with journalist Alina Cho, a member of the festival’s advisory board. While Willis’ health may be stable, Moore said she also understands that “the disease is what the disease is.”

“I think you have to have a deep acceptance of what that is,” Moore said, according to People.

News of Willis’ aphasia diagnosis coincided with his family’s announcement in 2022 that he would retire from acting.

Earlier this year, Moore spoke candidly about how she is dealing with Willis’ health issues. In a January conversation with Andy Cohen, she encouraged loved ones with aphasia to stay in the present. She echoed that sentiment on Sunday, telling Cho and her Hamptons audience that “if you hold on to what was, I think it’s a losing game.”

“But when you show up to meet them where they are, there is great beauty and sweetness.”

Willis has been married to Emma Heming Willis since 2009. But there clearly remains affection between Moore and Willis, who married in 1987 and divorced in 2000. The two actors share daughters Rumer, Scout LaRue and Tallulah. Moore said Sunday that she recently visited Willis, Rumer and her toddler granddaughter Louetta. Moore enjoyed “being able to share everything we have, no matter how long we have it.”

Moore, 61, received her HIFF award during her high-profile turn in Coralie Fargeat’s body horror film “The Substance,” a stomach-churning but insightful meditation on aging and stardom.

“That deep memory of appreciating who you are, as you are, where you are, resonated more and more as the process went on,” Moore recently told The Times. “And not just the outside. Basically all those internal things of who we are that we can often overlook. And the journey it takes to get where you are now.”