BRUCE WILLIS. The state of health of the famous american actor has evolved. Bruce Willis suffers from dementia, an incurable disease, according to a new diagnosis. In the spring of 2022, the actor announced that he had aphasia and ended his career.
Bruce Willis gives news, or rather his family, but the announcements are not encouraging. The American actor, absent from Hollywood cinema for almost a year, has dementia, we learned from a text shared by Demi Moore, the ex-wife of the man who plays the role of John McClane in the Die Hard saga, on Instagram on February 16, 2023. “Bruce’s disease has progressed and we now have a more precise diagnosis: frontotemporal dementia”, detailed the relatives of Bruce Willis in a press release.
While in the spring of 2022, the famous actor announced that he suffered from aphasia, a language disorder, the real evil would actually be this dementia. “Unfortunately, the communication difficulties are just one symptom of the illness that Bruce faces.” An incurable, neurodegenerative disease which is sometimes related to Alzheimer’s disease, because of the memory and behavioral disorders it causes in addition to difficulties in speaking and moving.
Far from cameras, 67-year-old Bruce Willis is surrounded by health professionals but also by his relatives, who thanked the actor’s fans for their support. The family of the American star hopes “that the media will focus on highlighting this disease, which requires much more awareness and research.
It’s over, we will no longer see Bruce Willis in the cinema. His relatives had announced on social networks on March 30, 2022 that he was ending his acting career. The American star, popular since Crystal Trap, Pulp Fiction or The Sixth Sense suffers from aphasia. It is a communication disorder. This can manifest itself both in expression, but also in understanding, whether oral or written. On February 16, 2023, relatives of the actor clarified the diagnosis of Bruce Willis. Aphasia is not the cause but the consequence of another more serious disease: frontotemporal dementia.
The state of health of Bruce Willis has not been further clarified by his relatives, so that we do not know the cause of his illness. However, according to the Los Angeles Time, Hollywood has been concerned about his condition for several years. Director Mike Burns, who directed the 67-year-old actor in Race against death in 2021, quickly realized “there was a big problem, and [il a]understand why we [lui] had asked to shorten his text”. According to several industry professionals, Bruce Willis had trouble remembering his lines, he seemed disoriented and saw his text and his presence on the film sets reduced to the maximum.
Aphasia, one of the consequences of the disease from which Bruce Willis suffers, is a language disorder that can disrupt oral language, reading, gestures or even writing. For an actor, as for anyone, aphasia is a real handicap in everyday life. Orally, according to the Service de neuropsychologie et de neuro-réhabilitation de Lausanne, aphasia can be characterized by the frequent use of one word by another, such as talking about “glasses” instead of “watch”, or its opposite, we will speak of hot to evoke cold. A partial distortion of words, even total in the most serious cases, and the production of sentences in telegraphic style are also a consequence of aphasia.
How do you become aphasic? At the origin of this evil, there is “a lesion of the specific areas of language, which are located in the brain”. In short, summarizes the CHUV, “anyone suffering from brain damage, with some acquisition of language, can become aphasic”. The origin of the lesion can be explained by a vascular accident, an injury or a pathological foreign mass, such as a tumour. In the case of Bruce Willis it is a dementia, a neurodegenerative disease, which is at the origin of the aphasia.
Can aphasia be cured? Unfortunately, this depends on several factors. The actor Bruce Willis, suffering from an incurable disease, will not be able to recover all his capacities. Other factors to take into account: the age of the patient, but also the cause of the lesion or the presence or absence of associated disorders.
Biography of Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis is an American actor born March 19, 1955. He is known for having played the first role in the Die Hard action film saga, but also in many films of the 1990s and 2000s: Pulp Fiction, The Fifth Element , Armageddon, Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Expendables or The Army of the Twelve Monkeys. On March 30, 2022, we learn that the actor is sick and suffers from aphasia: he officially retires from the cinema.
Walter Bruce Willison, better known as Bruce Willis, was born on March 19, 1955 at the Idar-Oberstein military base in Germany. Her father, David Willison, is an American soldier who married a German, Marlene Willison. He has two brothers and a sister. He arrived in the United States at the age of 2. After working as a security guard and as a bartender, he decided to turn to acting. He studied drama at Montclair State University.
In the early 1980s he was in New York dividing his time between theater and bar jobs and studying at the Actors Studio. It was in 1986 that Bruce Willis became famous with the Clair de Lune television series. Two years later, he achieved star status by filming the first part of the Die Hard series: Piège de cristal. He then appeared in films with limited success such as Deadly Thoughts (1991), Hudson Hawk gentleman burglar (1991) or Death suits you so well (1992).
In 1994, Bruce Willis’ career rebounded thanks to his role in Pulp Fiction (1994). From then on, he went on to success, often posing as the savior of the world (The Army of the Twelve Monkeys in 1995, The Fifth Element in 1997 or Armageddon in 1998). At the end of the decade, the actor explored the registers of the supernatural (Sixth Sense in 1999, Unbreakable in 2000) then in the 2000s, we saw him in war films (Mission Evasion in 2002) and action ( Sin City in 2005, Hostage in 2005, Expendables: Special Unit in 2010 alongside other prestigious names such as Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke and Dolph Lundgren).
The year 2013 was particularly prolific for the actor who starred in no less than six films of different genres: No Way Out alongside Henry Cavill, Moonrise Kingdom by Wes Anderson, Las Vegas: Memoirs of a Gamer , but especially the muscular blockbuster Expendables 2, the sci-fi film Looper and finally Fire With Fire, revenge by fire.
The following year, he reduced his quota by half and distinguished himself in a new part of the Die Hard saga: Beautiful day to die, weighed down by criticism, and in Red 2, the sequel to the adventures of CIA retirees, without forgetting his umpteenth action film GI Joe: Conspiracy. The year 2014 will be rich for Willis who will participate in the sequel to Sin City: I Killed For Her. And if it was planned to see him again on the sets of Expendables 3 alongside Sylvester Stallone, it will ultimately be nothing following a dispute over his stamp. Since then, the star will have made appearances in several films including Glass in 2019 and made her first steps in the theater. In 2022, his family announced that he was ending his acting career: he was ill and suffered from aphasia, a language disorder.
Among the roles of Bruce Willis that marked the viewers, note his brief appearance in the series Friends. The American star had indeed lost a bet with Matthew Perry, who plays Chandler. As a pledge, he had to agree to star in the hit sitcom. He plays Paul, the father of Ross’ girlfriend and Rachel’s boyfriend, during season 6.
Bruce Willis has been married twice in his life. From 1987 to 2000, he lived a highly publicized love affair with American actress Demi Moore. From their union, which lasted 13 years, three daughters were born: Rumer Gleen in 1988, Scout LaRue in 1991 and Tallulah Belle in 1994. After being briefly engaged to Brooke Burns, we learned in 2009 that the American actor from Die Hard married Emma Heming. This model, who is 23 years younger than him, gave birth to the actor’s last two children: Mabel Ray in 2012 and Evelyn Penn in 2014. He never had a son.