Emma Heming Willis gets honest about finding joy with Bruce after dementia
Emma Heming Willis recently admitted that she is still excited to celebrate the holidays with her ailing husband, Bruce Willis, and their kids.
On Thursday, November 20, the 47-year-old British model and actress attended the End Well 2025 conference in Los Angeles, where she chatted with PEOPLE magazine.
Emma opened up to the outlet about celebrating Christmas and how it feels like enjoying special festive seasons with Bruce, who was initially diagnosed with aphasia in 2022 and then frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
She said, “It’s joyous. It’s just different. Bruce loved Christmas and we love celebrating it with him. It just looks different, so we’ve kind of adapted to that.”
The Perfect Stranger star confessed that holidays for the families of those navigating life with dementia can be “so hard” but she light-heartedly added, “I think it’s important to put Die Hard on because it’s a Christmas movie.”
She went on to articulate, “You have to learn and adapt and make new memories, bring in the same traditions that you had before.”
“Life goes on. It just goes on. Dementia is hard, but there is still joy in it. I think it’s important that we don’t paint such a negative picture around dementia. We are still laughing. There is still joy. It just looks different,” the mother of two children stated.
It is pertinent to mention that Emma Heming Willis shares two kids, Ray Willis (born in 2012) and Evelyn Penn Willis (born in 2014), with Bruce Willis.
