Bruce Willis wife, Emma Heming, shares emotional 17th anniversary post as he battles dementia: Anger and grief

Bruce Willis’s wife is speaking out on their 17th anniversary. Emma Heming Willis, 46, took to social media for an emotional and candid acknowledgement of celebrating the day with Bruce, 69, amid his dementia health battle.“17 years of us,” Emma began her Instagram post, adding a heart emoji. “Anniversaries used to bring excitement.

Now, if I’m honest, they stir up all the feelings, leaving a heaviness in my heart and a pit in my stomach,” she continued.“I give myself 30 minutes to sit in the ‘why him, why us,’ to feel the anger and grief.”Bruce, 69, retired from acting in 2022, after initially being diagnosed with aphasia. In February 2023, the “Sixth Sense” actor’s family further revealed that his condition had worsened and that he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.“Moonlighting” creator Glenn Gordon Caron, who is still friends with Willis, told the Post in 2023 that the actor is not “totally verbal.” “He used to be a voracious reader — he didn’t want anyone to know that — and he’s not reading now,” said Caron. “All those language skills are no longer available to him, and yet he’s still Bruce.”Heming continued her post by writing, “Then I shake it off and return to what is.

And what is… is unconditional love.I feel blessed to know it, and it’s because of him.

I’d do it all over again and again in a heartbeat.” Emma and Bruce reportedly met in 2007 at their mutual trainer’s gym.They tied the knot in 2009.

They have two daughters together — Mabel, 12, and Evelyn, 10 — and she’s also the stepmother to Willis’ three daughters with his ex-wife, Demi Moore, 62: Rumer, 36, Scout, 33, and Tallulah, 30.In an October interview with Town & Country, Heming said, “His disease is misdiagnosed, it’s missed, it’s misunderstood, so finally getting to a diagnosis was key so that I could learn what frontotemporal dementia is and I could educate our children.”She added, “I�...