Rumer Willis has offered a well being replace on her father, Bruce Willis, who was recognized with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in 2023.
Showing on the British daytime discuss present Free Ladies on Monday (February 3), Rumer was requested how the Die Exhausting star is doing, to which she responded, “He’s doing nice. I believe, clearly, as many individuals in California, the factor we’re all type of most fearful of coping with is simply the fires and wanting to ensure every thing is okay.”
“As a result of my household, we’re all so shut,” she continued. “I believe what’s so lovely is the best way that we rally round one another, [it’s] so pretty, as a result of we actually are a unit.”
The Empire actress additionally opened up about co-parenting her toddler daughter together with her ex, Derek Richard Thomas, and the way she discovered invaluable classes from her mother and father, Bruce, and Demi Moore, who divorced after 13 years of marriage again in 2000.
“I believe the factor I’m most grateful for is that even after they cut up up, they created such a wonderful basis of prioritizing my sisters and I, that I by no means felt like I had to decide on or like, they by no means performed in opposition to one another,” she shared.
“We had been a household, and we nonetheless are very a lot a household it doesn’t matter what,” Rumer added. “And never solely did I really feel like that has set me up in my life to have such a wonderful basis of my family, however now, as I’m working by means of co-parenting as nicely, I really feel deep gratitude for the instance they’ve set.”
Bruce and Moore share three daughters, Rumer being the oldest, then Scout (born 1991) and Tallulah (born 1994). The previous couple remained amicable after the cut up, and Moore has rallied round Bruce and the household amid her ex’s battle with dementia.
In 2009, Bruce married mannequin Emma Heming, and the pair share two daughters, Mabel (12) and Evelyn (10). Heming is shut with Moore, Rumer, Scout, and Tallulah, all of whom have supported Bruce over the previous couple of years by means of his well being struggles.
Most just lately, the household celebrated Moore’s Golden Globe win for her function in The Substance. “What a present to witness you shine and be acknowledged not just for the unbelievable work you probably did on this movie however within the multitude of staggeringly breathtaking work your complete profession,” Rumer wrote in an Instagram Story.
“I’m so past proud, my complete physique is buzzing. I’m so overwhelmed with pleasure and delight and gratitude!!” Scout added, whereas Tallulah wrote, “This lady is my trainer, my information, my pal. The world is seeing you as your loved ones does, and I’m beaming with delight.”
Heming additionally celebrated the massive win, writing, “We’re screaming over right here!!!”
Bruce’s household revealed his FTD analysis in February 2023. Based on the Affiliation for Frontotemporal Degeneration, FTD is the commonest type of dementia and might have an effect on habits, persona, language, and motion.