How dementia-stricken Bruce Willis bonds with his granddaughter Louetta
has offered a sweet glimpse into her father Bruce Willis ' relationship with his granddaughter, little Louetta.
In an interview with People, the star, 36, described about how 'obsessed' her famous family is with baby Louetta, the two-year-old daughter she shares with her ex-boyfriend Derek Richard Thomas.
The youngster serves as a bright spot for Rumer's father Bruce, who is battling dementia.
'Even with my dad, given the challenges that he's dealing with, whenever we go over there to visit, his face just lights up and he gets so excited and is so sweet with her,' she said of her father.
'My family is so incredible with her. I feel so lucky, and she's so lucky. I mean, they are obsessed with her.'
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And Louella also brings much joy to her famous grandmother, Demi Moore.
'They love each other. I mean, you should see her face light up when they're on FaceTime when we're away,' Rumer said of Louella and her mother Demi.
'She just gets so excited and it's sweet, and my mom is so incredible with babies. She always has been, and so it's such a delight to see them together,' she said, adding they were 'so silly and wonderful.'
Baby Louella has clearly made an impact on Rumer's family.
Last year The House Bunny star gushed to DailyMail.com that she feels 'very blessed' to be Louetta's mom and that she is 'the most amazing kid.'
'She's so happy and wonderful and smiley. She's joyful all of the time.'
The Willis family has remained extremely tight knit despite Demi and Bruce's divorce in 2000 after 13 years of marriage.
They celebrate holidays together along with Bruce's wife, Emma Hemming Willis, and their two young daughters and they have rallied around the Glass actor amid his tragic health battle.
Rumer said that baby Louetta's 'face lights up' when she hears her phone's FaceTime ringer as she knows it's an incoming call from family.
'She'll try to grab the phone and see who's on it and her face lights up with a megawatt smile.'
Rumer also gushed over how 'sweet' it's been to see Demi become a grandmother.
'I think grandmas are inherently very different than how they are as mothers to a certain extent because it's all of the joy [of a child] without any of the responsibility,' she explained. 'There's just such sweetness.'
Bruce was stepped away from public life after his diagnosis of frontotemporal aphasia in 2022.
The condition progressed and the family announced he was suffering from frontotemporal dementia in 2023.
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