Demi Moore shares the latest health update on her ex-husband Bruce Willis, the father of her three daughters.
While attending the 2024 Hamptons International Film Festival in New York on Sunday, where she was honored with the Career Achievement in Acting Award, the actress described his current condition as “stable” amid his diagnosis of aphasia and frontotemporal dementia (FTD ).
“You know, I’ve said this before. The disease is what the disease is. And I think you have to have a deep acceptance of what that is,” Moore told the audience during a live discussion moderated by Alina Cho, as reported by People. “But where he is now, he’s stable.”
Moore recently visited Willis, to whom she was married for 13 years, just two days prior to the HIFF event, for a visit with their very first grandchild, daughter Rumer’s daughter Louetta.
The Old Hollywood leading lady goes on such outings with Willis with the idea that they “will be able to share everything we have, however long we have it.”
Demi Moore, 61, shared an update on the health of her ex-husband, Bruce Willis, describing his current condition as “stable” amid his diagnosis of aphasia and frontotemporal dementia
The A Few Good Men star also believes it’s best to stay in the moment when it comes to her ex-husband’s advancing illness, and not just think of him in terms of who he’s been in the past had always been for years.
“What I always encourage is to just meet them where they are. If you hold on to what was, I think it’s a losing game,” the Los Angeles native told captivated fans and reporters. “But when you come and meet them where they are, there is great beauty and loveliness.”
The former couple met at the premiere of the film Stakeout in July, which Moore attended with her then-fiancé, Emilio Estevez.
Shortly after the premiere, Moore and Willis started dating and were on track to get married just months later in November of that same year.
During their romance, they welcomed three daughters: Rumer, 36, who just welcomed Louetta, her first child with partner Derek Richard Thomas in April 2023, Scout, 33, and Tallulah, 30.
They eventually announced their separation in June 1998, but their divorce was not finalized until 2000.
Despite the split, the former couple have remained close friends and have shared the co-parenting duties of their three daughters over the years.
Willis married his second wife Emma Heming in 2009, and they would welcome their own daughters: Mabel, 12, and Evelyn, 10.
“You know, I’ve said this before. The disease is what the disease is. And I think you have to have a deep acceptance of what that is,” Moore told the audience during a live discussion moderated by Alina Cho. “But where he is now, he is stable.”
Demi Moore has urged the families of people with dementia to ‘let go’ of the person they used to be following her ex-husband’s diagnosis of aphasia and frontotemporal dementia (FTD); the former couple is seen with daughter Tallulah
Willis and Moore were married from 1987 to 2000 and share three children; they are all pictured together in October 2001
The blended family shares outings together involving Willis, his wife Emma Heming, 46, their two daughters Mabel, 12, and Evelyn, 10, Moore, 61, and daughters Tallulah, 30.
The former couple have remained friends since their divorce in 2000
The Die Hard star has been married to his second wife, Emma Heming, since 2009
During Moore’s appearance at HIFF, Moore talked about some of her career highlights, such as the hit films Ghost (1990), Indecent Proposal (1993), A Few Good Men (1992), Gi Jane (1997), as well as her Brat Pack days . in ’80s classics St. Elmos Fire (1985) and About Last Night… (1986).
She talked about what it meant to her to watch a reel of her film backstage before finally receiving her award.
“I felt like I was watching a big part of life,” she said, before adding, “It actually feels like lifetimes, because the gift is that we can keep changing and growing.” What I thought was, ‘Thank God I kept getting opportunities to get better.'”
For her latest role, Moore stars in the satirical body-horror The Substance, which was released in the US and UK at the end of September, alongside Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid.