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Demi Moore says Bruce Willis is 'stable' in battle with aphasia.
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Demi Moore says Bruce Willis is 'stable' in battle with aphasia.

Demi Moore has offered an update on Bruce Willis' health, more than two years after the Die Hard actor was diagnosed with aphasia.

Willis, 69, was diagnosed with aphasia, a cognitive disorder, in March 2022. Less than a year later, he was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, a degenerative brain disease that currently has no cure.

Moore said Sunday at the 2024 Hamptons International Film Festival that her ex-husband is “stable.” The Substance star, who accepted the festival's career achievement acting honor, shared her update during a conversation with journalist Alina Cho, a member of the festival's advisory board. While Willis' health may be stable, Moore said she also understands that “the disease is what the disease is.”

“I think you have to really deeply accept what this is,” Moore said, according to People.

News of Willis' aphasia diagnosis coincided with his family's announcement in 2022 that he would be retiring from acting.

Earlier this year, Moore opened up about how she's dealing with Willis' health issues. In a conversation with Andy Cohen in January, she encouraged families of aphasia patients to stay in the present. She echoed that sentiment on Sunday, telling Cho and her Hamptons audience, “If you hold on to what was, I think it's a losing game.”

“But when you meet them where they are, there is great beauty and sweetness.”

Willis has been married to Emma Heming Willis since 2009. Apparently there remains affection between Moore and Willis, who married in 1987 and divorced in 2000. The two actors share daughters Rumer, Scout LaRue and Tallulah. Moore said Sunday that she recently paid a visit to Willis, Rumer and their young granddaughter, Louetta. Moore enjoyed “being able to share with everything we have, no matter how long we have it.”

Moore, 61, received her HIFF award as part of her breakout role in Coralie Fargeat's body horror film The Substance, a harrowing but insightful meditation on aging and fame.

“That deep reminder of appreciating who you are, how you are, where you are, has resonated more and more throughout the process,” Moore recently told The Times. “And not just the outside. Really, all those internal things of who we are that we can often overlook. And the journey it took to get where you are.”

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