He confesses his fragility and difficulty in accepting the illness of his father, Hollywood actor Bruce Willis. Tallulah Willis, 29, one of the daughters of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, has penned an intense letter/editorial published by Vogue about the process that led to the actor’s frontotemporal dementia diagnosis. Die Hard, Pulp Fiction, The Sixth Sense and many others. A disease that leaves no way out and because of which the actor had to leave the stage. The family announced their retirement in March 2022.
Tallulah said she denied the actor’s deteriorating health for a long time.. “I knew something was wrong. It all started with a vague lack of response, Tallulah says, which the family attributed to hearing loss: “Speak louder! tenacious he messed up dad’s ears,” the actor said. As the actor’s health deteriorated, Willis’ daughter thought her father was “losing interest in her.” “My teenage mind tortured itself with the wrong conclusions: I’m not pretty enough for my mother, I’m not interesting enough for my father.” It was difficult for the girl to come to terms with the decline of her father also because at that time she suffered from anorexia caused by depression and alcohol addiction. “I admit that I have faced the decline of Papa Bruce in recent years with a willingness to avoid it, which I am not proud of, but the truth is that even I was too sick to deal with it.”
“Every time I go to my father’s house,” he explains, “I dive into tons of photos to save things that I didn’t pay attention to.. I saved every message he left on my voicemail, I think I’m trying to document, build a history of the day he left, to remind me of him. Now he still recognizes me and lights up when he sees me.” Bitter reflection. Tallulah knows that the time will come when Bruce will no longer recognize her, will not be able to share her joys, will not be able to one day marry her. In 2021, she was invited to the wedding and achieved a lot: “I realized,” she writes, “that this moment will never be for me. It was devastating, I got up from the table and left in tears.” Now, Willis’ daughter has learned to appreciate the little daily moments she shares with her father: “I love this moment,” she concludes, “I hold my father’s hand and feel it’s wonderful.”