Rumer Willis has revealed why she struggles to answer the question of how her father, Bruce Willis, is doing after being diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
The eldest daughter of Bruce and Demi Moore, 37, opened up about the challenges they face as a family after her father developed frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in 2022 during a Q&A on her Instagram Stories.
A fan asked Rumer about Bruce’s condition, to which she responded, “People always ask me this question and I think it’s hard to answer because the truth is anyone with FTD isn’t doing very well.”
“But he’s fine as far as someone with frontotemporal dementia goes, you know what I mean?” she added.
THE Doctor Odyssey The star went further and said that the normal “parameters” regarding a person’s well-being “don’t really work in my mind anymore” when it comes to her father, so it’s “still an interesting question” for her to answer.
However, Rumer answered the question in the following clip, admitting that she is grateful for every moment she gets to spend with her ailing father and 2-year-old daughter, Louetta, at her residence.
Notably, the most special thing for her is that she can always hug Bruce. “The answer I would give is I’m so happy and grateful that I can still go and hug him.”
“I’m so grateful that when I go over there and give him a hug, whether he recognizes me or not, he can feel the love that I gave him and I can feel it back from him.”
“[I’m so happy] that I still see a spark of him and that he can feel the love that I give and so it’s really nice. Yeah, I’m just grateful that I get to go there with Louetta, and we spend time with him and I feel the love that he has for me and that he gives me and that I can love him and be with him,” Rumer explained.
