Demi Moore has offered an update on Bruce Willisâ health, more than two years after the âDie Hardâ 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 âis stable.â The star of âThe Substance,â who accepted the festâs career achievement in acting honor, shared her update during a conversation with journalist Alina Cho, a member of the festivalâs advisory board. While Willisâ health may be steady, Moore said she also understands âthe disease is what the disease is.â
âI think you have to be in real deep acceptance of what that is,â Moore said, according to People.
News of Willisâ aphasia diagnosis coincided with his familyâs 2022 announcement that he would retire from acting.
Earlier this year, Moore spoke candidly about how she copes with Willisâ health issues. In a January conversation with Andy Cohen, she encouraged loved ones of aphasia sufferers to stay in the present. She echoed that sentiment Sunday, telling Cho and her Hamptons audience that âwhen youâre holding on to what was, I think itâs a losing game.â
âBut when you show up to meet them where theyâre at, there is great beauty and sweetness.â
Willis has been married to Emma Heming Willis since 2009. But clearly, affection remains 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 paid a visit to Willis, Rumer and her toddler granddaughter Louetta. Moore reveled in âbeing able to share with whatever we have, for however long we have it.â
Moore, 61, received her HIFF honor amid her buzz-worthy turn in Coralie Fargeatâs body horror film âThe Substance,â a stomach-churning yet insightful meditation on aging and stardom.
âThat deep reminder of appreciating who you are, as you are, where you are, just resonated more as the process went along,â Moore told The Times recently. âAnd not just the external. Really, all of those internal things of who we are that we often can overlook. And the journey of what itâs taken to get where you are.â