AMERICANALMANAC (Ken Jacobs) - Emma Heming Willis marks 50th birthday with honesty about caregiver guilt as Bruce Willis faces dementia
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