MAKING EVERY MOMENT COUNT

Bruce Willis' loved ones are rallying around the A-list actor this holiday season

- JAIME HARKIN

This Thanksgiving was an emotional one for the Willis family. Over the holiday weekend, Bruce Willis’ daughter Scout posted a touching video on Instagram showing her and her famous father — who’s battling frontotemporal dementia, an untreatable brain disorder that impairs speech and motor skills — holding hands at a table, as well as a photo of her cradling his palm to her face. Bruce’s wife, Emma, also posted a throwback photo of the extended family, including their daughters Mabel and Evelyn, the actor’s ex-wife, Demi, and his older daughters, Rumer, Scout and Tallulah, writing, “I’m grateful and thankful to know this kind of love.”

It’s a bittersweet time for Bruce’s loved ones. The family announced in March 2022 that the Die Hard star, 68, had been battling aphasia, a language disorder that affects a person’s abilities to communicate. Then, this past February, they revealed his condition had progressed, and he’d been diagnosed with FTD. According to the National Institutes of Health, the typical life expectancy for those living with the illness is just six to eight years, but some medical sources put it as low as two years. Ever since, Emma, 45, Demi, 61, Rumer, 35, Scout, 32, and Tallulah, 29, have been rallying around him 24/7 alongside Mabel, 11, and Evelyn, 9. “Bruce has good days and bad days, but in the last two months, there are many more bad days than good,” says a source. “This experience has brought the whole family even closer together. No one knows how much time Bruce has left, so they’re soaking up every moment they get with him.”

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