Rumer Willis has revealed why she finds it difficult to respond to how her father Bruce Willis is doing after being diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
The 37-year-old eldest daughter of Bruce and Demi Moore spoke about the challenges they face as a family after her father developed frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in 2022 during a Q&A on her Instagram Stories.
A fan asked Rumer about Bruce’s condition, to which she replied, “People always ask me this question, and I think it’s kind of hard to answer because the truth is, someone with FTD doesn’t do well.”
“But he’s doing okay for someone dealing with frontotemporal dementia, you know what I mean?” she added.
The Doctor Odyssey star went on to state that normal “parameters” of what a person’s well-being is “really don’t work in my mind anymore” when it comes to her father, so this is “always an interesting question” for her to answer.
However, Rumer answered the question in the following clip, admitting that she is grateful for every moment she spends with her ailing father and her 2-year-old daughter, Louetta, at his residence.
The most special thing about her is that she can still hug Bruce. “The answer I would give is that I’m so happy and grateful that I can still go and hug him.”
“I’m so thankful that when I go over there and give him a hug, whether he recognizes me or not, he can feel the love I’ve given him and I can feel it back from him.”
“[I’m so happy] that I still see a spark of him and he can feel the love I give and so it feels really nice. Yeah, I just feel grateful that I get to go over there with Louetta and we get to spend time with him and I get to feel the love that he has for me and that he puts out for me and that I can love him and be with him,” Rumer explained.
