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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Amber Raiken

Bruce Willis daughter opens up on new ‘tenderness’ in father since dementia diagnosis

  • Rumer Willis discussed her father Bruce Willis 's frontotemporal dementia diagnosis and his special relationship with her three-year-old daughter, Louetta.
  • She expressed gratitude that her daughter had the chance to meet him, acknowledging her sisters might not have the same opportunity.
  • Rumer described a new 'tenderness' in her father since his diagnosis and praised her family's efforts to support each other through this 'unprecedented' situation.
  • She noted that while he is 'okay in the context of what his reality is,' their time together is now different from before.
  • Bruce Willis, who receives 24-hour care, sometimes does not recognise Rumer, but she believes he can still feel her love.

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