Die Frau von Bruce Willis teilt das erste Anzeichen dafür, dass mit dem Schauspieler etwas nicht stimmte
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bruce-willis-dementia-symptom-missed_n_69020da7e4b0828bf5cd5fa0?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=us_main
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“I think for me what I noticed was that his stutter started to come back,” the model said. “Bruce had a severe stutter when he was a child that he held onto, actually, his life, but was able to kind of get a handle on it, I think, in his adult years. Then I started seeing that it started coming back. Never in my wildest dreams would I think that was now becoming a symptom of FTD.”
The first sign was when he agreed to do Die Hard 4
For someone constantly asking for privacy, she sure talks a lot.
>Heming Willis told the outlet that she thought to herself, ”‘What is going on? This is not the person that I married. Something is just so off,’” she said, admitting that she “just couldn’t figure it out.”
>”I finally understood that those crazy marital issues were not Bruce,” Heming Willis said in a September interview with Oprah Winfrey.“Neither were those off moments and subtle shifts in his personality. They were the result of his brain being dismantled, taking part of the husband I knew and loved with it.”
Bruce and Kevin Smith had a row on the movie Cop Out which Smith openly castigated Willis for, for years afterwards, then after his diagnosis Smith apologized because he sensed a lot of Willis’ behavior on set at the time was to due to early onset dementia and people thought he was just being a dick.
edit – here’s Smith talking about it a few years ago:
https://youtu.be/aLu3sBGD8Ig
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People SHOULD talk about this. My mother hid my dad’s lewey body dementia from me for a long long time and did nothing not help him. When I found out it was way too late. 😢
Not at all surprising, having observed dementia come over a number of people. Childhood resurfaces. My guess is I’ll start hissing again, because I had speech therapy to suppress my sibilance, which I have trouble hearing because those high frequencies are directional and my ears, meaning my eustachian tubes, were often blocked when I was little. I was told I was fixed one day and still couldn’t hear the difference, so I expect I’ll turn into a serpent one evening, and will slither away. The connection to Bruce is that stuttering becomes a deeply ingrained habit when it triggers a lot. You can block the triggers, which his wife describes as him managing it, but you lose the ability to do that, and the habit comes back. Therapy teaches you a way to avoid a habit, but it can’t erase it from your past.
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My God I don’t care
Are they…drip feeding us these sad stories to keep it relevant for some reason?
It’s weird I learn a new aspect of this horrible event every couple of days.
I remember during the press rounds for Red 2 there was an unfortunate interview where Brice came across as rude. Think he was talking about Istanbul or something? At the time it really soured people on him. That must’ve been an example of this
I’m always torn about this. On the one hand, it’s so important to talk about these things and normalize it. Bringing awareness is so, so important and can help so many people.
But on the other hand, this is someone’s life, and we don’t know if he would want this much information being so public 🫤
During Covid, a few weeks into nation-wide mask mandates, there was footage of some incident where Willis was in a convenience store or bodega somewhere and one of the employees was trying to tell him that he needed to wear a mask or leave the store.
The whole thing was caught on security camera and, not knowing his condition at the time, it appears as if he looks confused and the way I interpreted it was “Big Hollywood hotshot is confused that he has to follow the rules like everyone else.” Little did I know that Willis was not understanding what was being said to him and he was just trying to do his best.
I share this because I’m ashamed for thinking that way and in the future I’m going to try to lead with a little more empathy and maybe try to assume that everyone is doing their best.
His story breaks my heart. I grew up watching him as one of my parents’ favourite actors. And I read recently he can’t even remember being an actor. I never knew about aphasia, but dementia runs in my family, and it’s absolutely devastating.
I’m sorry but I’m so sick of hearing from her. She’s trying to become famous from this and it’s bumming me out. To become famous for having to watch your ACTUAL famous husband suffer is bizarre and sad. I hope he’s being well taken care of and she gets the least in the will.
Ghouls, you are ghouls. Whoever rights this shit or worse those that read it, worm people.