After Bruce Willis was diagnosed with a rare form of dementia, his wife Emma Heming Willis took on an entirely new role: caregiver. The model, author and advocate sits down with MS NOW Anchor Richard Lui to share just how important caregiving is and why she's now dedicated to help and support others. Become an MS NOW Member to watch the full interview with Emma, plus other exclusive sit downs with leaders and entertainers sharing their caregiving stories as part of Richard Lui’s series, “Because We Care.” Join the MS NOW Membership: https://www.ms.now/membership
Model, author and advocate, Emma Heming Willis sits down with MS NOW Anchor Richard Lui and shares her personal journey as a caregiver after her husband, Bruce Willis, was diagnosed with a rare form of dementia. Become an MS NOW Member to watch the full interview with Emma, plus other exclusive sit downs with leaders and entertainers sharing their caregiving stories as part of Richard Lui’s series, “Because We Care.”
Emma Heming Willis opened up about the guilt she carries as a caregiver while celebrating her 50th birthday, a milestone she almost skipped because her husband Bruce Willis continues to live with frontotemporal dementia. Heming Willis, the former model and entrepreneur married to the "Die Hard" and "Pulp Fiction" star since 2009, appeared on the […] The post Emma Heming Willis marks 50th birthday with honesty about caregiver guilt as Bruce Willis faces dementia appeared first on American Almanac .
Emma Heming Willis opened up about the guilt she carries as a caregiver while celebrating her 50th birthday, a milestone she almost skipped because her husband Bruce Willis continues to live with frontotemporal dementia. Heming Willis, the former model and entrepreneur married to the "Die Hard" and "Pulp Fiction" star since 2009, appeared on the Aug. 5 episode of Hoda Kotb's "Making Space" podcast and described the internal conflict that shadows every personal joy when your spouse is losing his mind to a progressive brain disease. Bruce Willis is 74. He cannot celebrate with her the way he once did. And that reality, she said, nearly kept her from marking the occasion at all. A friend pushed her to reconsider. Heming Willis told Kotb …Open
Heming Willis told NewsNation’s Elizabeth Vargas that he experiences anosognosia, a neurological condition in which patients don’t recognize their own health decline.
