Tallulah Willis revealed she was “dumped” by her fiancé Dillon Buss last year and talked about her struggles with anorexia, ADHD and borderline personality disorder in a lengthy essay published Wednesday.
The 29-year-old daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore wrote the candid piece Fashionwhere she shared in June last year that Buss, who she got engaged to in May 2021, left her.
“My boyfriend, who was my fiancé at the time, dumped me,” she wrote, adding that the situation prompted her family to step in and send her to a hospital, where she was diagnosed with borderline.
“I was given a new diagnosis: borderline personality disorder, a disease that affects the ability to regulate emotions and find stability in relationships,” she explained.
Willis also described her struggles with anorexia, which dropped her to just 84 pounds and left her unable to even take a walk near her home.
Dumped: Tallulah Willis revealed she was “dumped” by her fiancé Dillon Buss last year and opened up about her struggles with anorexia, ADHD and borderline personality disorder in a lengthy essay published Wednesday
Tallulah announced her engagement to Bass in May 2021. Dillon, who is a filmmaker, was involved with Tallulah for about a year before popping her the question.
At the time, she gushed in her caption, “with absolute certainty,” presumably referring to the way she agreed to marry Dillon.
She got sober when she was 20 years old and says she started restricting food because it was “the last vice she could hang on to” — and she was diagnosed with the eating disorder four years ago.
“For the past four years I have been suffering from anorexia nervosa,” wrote Tallulah, who recently shared that she was cheated on about her weight.
“In the spring of 2022, I weighed about 84 pounds. I was always freezing cold. I called mobile IV teams to come to my house, and I couldn’t walk in my Los Angeles neighborhood because I was afraid of not having a place to sit down and catch my breath,” she openly shared.
Willis wrote that the battle over her body image began when she was just a young girl — she recalls a time when she attended an event at age 11 with her mother Demi and her then-partner Ashton Kutcher, but faced brutal public criticism of her appearance. .
After spending “two hours” reading the vile comments posted about her online, Tallulah said she was left “with the silent certainty of her own ugliness,” a thought that would linger in the back of her mind for years to come.
At the age of 25, she was admitted to a hospital in Malibu to be treated for depression and ADHD.
Split: Tallulah, 29, shared that Buss, who she became engaged to in May 2021, left her in June last year, after which she was diagnosed with borderline; seen after May 2021 engagement
As they were: Dillon, who is a filmmaker, was involved with Tallulah for about a year before popping her the question
Anorexia struggle: Willis also described her struggle with anorexia in the essay, writing that she was diagnosed with an eating disorder four years ago
Health issues: The eating disorder caused her to drop to just 84 pounds and prevent her from even going for a walk near her house
Better now: She then shared that after spending some time in a hospital in Texas, she started to do better, though she knows her recovery will be “probably lifelong”
Describing her loved ones’ reaction to her rapid weight loss, Tallulah recalls experiencing an “unhealthy bliss” when people commented on her changing physique, though she notes that their amazement at her slim figure soon turned to concern as she continued to exercise. to fall off. .
Now Tallulah wonders what would have happened if her father – who struggles with aphasia – had been “his full self” and realized what was wrong with her, saying she “likes to think he wouldn’t have happened’.
‘If he had understood, [he] might have picked me up and said, “This is over now,” she said.
She then shared that she started to do better after spending some time in a hospital in Texas, following the end of her engagement.
“By the time I left Texas, in October, I felt a lot better,” she said, adding that she knows her recovery “will probably be lifelong,” but that she now feels able to “be present.” to be in every aspect of her life. , including her relationship with her father.
“Most of my clothes are too small now, and when I go through my closet in the morning, I have to resist the temptation to linger in there and push myself to move on.” Recovery is likely to be lifelong, but I now have the tools to be present in all areas of my life, especially my relationship with my father.”
Elsewhere in the interview, she candidly exposed heartbreaking new details about Bruce’s ongoing battle with the degenerative brain condition aphasia – revealing in searing detail how she knew something was wrong with her father “a long time ago” but assumed he was had simply “lost interest in her” after the birth of his children with his second wife.
She recalled witnessing her father’s steady mental decline and admitted that she and her family initially blamed the 68-year-old for his “Hollywood hearing loss.”
Father: Elsewhere in the interview, she shared heartbreaking new details about father Bruce’s bitter struggle with degenerative brain disease aphasia
Family: As Bruce’s condition worsened, Tallulah admitted that she thought her father had ‘lost interest in her’ after welcoming two children with his second wife Emma (Bruce is seen with his ex Demi, wife Emma and his five children)
However, as things got more serious, she admits that she “began to take it personally,” writing, “Later on, that insensitivity grew and I sometimes took it personally.” He had had two babies with my stepmother, Emma Heming Willis, and I thought he had lost interest in me.
“While this couldn’t be further from the truth, my teenage brain tortured itself with some faulty math: I’m not pretty enough for my mom, I’m not interesting enough for my dad.”
Bruce’s devastating diagnosis was revealed to the world in early 2022, with his family – including his ex-wife Demi Moore, their children and his current wife Emma – issuing a joint statement on behalf of the actor, as he shared details about his condition.
Less than a year after sharing his first aphasia diagnosis, Bruce suffered another devastating blow when he was told he has frontotemporal dementia (FTD) – an uncommon form of the disease that causes a decline in behavior, personality and language.