Hollywood star Bruce Willis, 68, had symptoms before being diagnosed with dementia, his daughter Tallulah Willis, 29, said.
According to foreign media such as CNN on the 1st (local time), CNN in the U.K., and Guardian in the U.K., Tallulah wrote in an article for the fashion magazine Vogue, “My father’s abnormal symptoms started with a kind of unresponsiveness. My family thought it was because of my hearing loss and that the movie ‘Die Hard’ had ruined my ears.” “As time passed, my father did not often respond to my words,” he confessed.
In March of last year, Willis announced his intention to retire from the Hollywood film industry due to cognitive decline due to aphasia. Aphasia is a disease in which language function is impaired due to pathological changes in the brain. In February, after a year, the Willis family announced that Willis had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Frontotemporal dementia, which is caused by damage to nerve cells in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, causes problems with language and judgment skills.
Tallulah said that he knew that his father’s condition was getting worse, but that he had suffered from anorexia for the past four years and was not in good health, so he was consistent with avoidance and denial. “My father remembers me for who I am, but when he speaks, he goes back and forth between the present and the past,” Tallulah said. Still, I don’t want to give up hope for his father.” He also said, “My family is in sorrow, but I find comfort in trying to make my father more comfortable.”
Meanwhile, Willis made his name known as a world-class action star through ‘Die Hard’ (1987) directed by John McTiernan. He has won a Golden Globe Award, an Emmy Award, and was even named on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006.
Source: Donga
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