Demi Moore Speaks Out on Ex Bruce Willis Amid Dementia Journey

Newsweek

23-04-2025

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Demi Moore made a rare comment on her ex-husband Bruce Willis since his dementia diagnosis.
The Context
The actor's family publicly shared his frontotemporal dementia diagnosis in 2023 after previously revealing in March 2022 that he had been diagnosed with aphasia.
Aphasia is a disorder that affects how you communicate, including speech, as well as the way one writes and understands both spoken and written language, according to the Mayo Clinic.
In their 2023 statement, the Willis family wrote: "Since we announced Bruce's diagnosis of aphasia in spring 2022, Bruce's condition has progressed and we now have a more specific diagnosis: frontotemporal dementia (known as FTD). Unfortunately, challenges with communication are just one symptom of the disease Bruce faces. While this is painful, it is a relief to finally have a clear diagnosis."
They added that FTD "is a cruel disease" that "can strike anyone."
Demi Moore and Bruce Willis pose for a portrait at the opening of Planet Hollywood at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota on December 12, 1993.
Demi Moore and Bruce Willis pose for a portrait at the opening of Planet Hollywood at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota on December 12, 1993.
Jim Steinfeldt/MichaelWhat To Know
In an interview with People, which was published on Tuesday, Moore, 62, was asked, "What are you most grateful for when it comes to your relationship with Bruce?"
In response, The Substance star said, "That regardless of what the outside relationship has been, we have maintained being a family in various forms. The foundation of making our children our priority has never wavered."
Newsweek reached out to Moore's representative via email for comment.
She added that she's "most grateful" for "my family, including my four-legged family, my children and all of the incredible, loving people in my life. I feel really so lucky."
Moore and Willis share three daughters together—Rumer, 36, Scout, 33, and Tallulah, 31.
Willis, 70, is a Golden Globe Award winner best known for his role as John McClane in the Die Hard franchise. He also appeared in such famous films as The Sixth Sense, Pulp Fiction and Armageddon.
What People Are Saying
In an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour in December 2024, Moore shared an update on Willis.
"Given the givens, he's in a very stable place at the moment. And, you know, I've shared this before, but I really mean this so sincerely: It's so important for anybody who's dealing with this to really meet them where they're at. And from that place, there is such loving and joy."
She continued, "I mean, obviously, it's very difficult, and it's not what I would wish upon anyone, and there is great loss, but there is also great beauty."
In February, Rumer Willis spoke out about her father on the U.K. talk show Loose Women.
"He's doing great," she said.
Moore and Willis divorced in 2000 after nearly 13 years of marriage, but their daughter, who is also an actress, said she has always admired their coparenting.
"The thing I'm most grateful for is that even when they split up, they created such a beautiful foundation of prioritizing my sisters and I, that I never felt like I had to choose—they never played against each other," Rumer Willis said.
"We were a family, and we still are very much a family no matter what."