"For someone who was very talkative and very engaged, he was just a little more quiet, shared the former model-turned activist and author."
"It felt a little removed, very cold, not like Bruce, who was very warm and affectionate, Emma continued. To go the complete opposite of that was alarming and scary."
"Imagine a marriage that has been tight and beautiful and suddenly the person that you're living with has no empathy or concern for you or your family."
Emma Heming Willis noticed subtle personality changes in Bruce Willis that progressed to alarming withdrawal and emotional coldness, raising concerns for their marriage. Bruce shifted from being talkative and engaged to quieter and less present during family gatherings, appearing removed and less affectionate. Those behavioral changes preceded a 2023 diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a neurodegenerative condition that can affect otherwise healthy people in their 50s and 60s. Dr. Bruce Miller, a UCSF neurology professor and FTD expert who now cooperates with Heming Willis on advocacy, described how FTD can erase empathy and concern, which may initially be mistaken for psychological issues but likely reflect neurodegeneration.
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