Demi Moore has shared the latest health update on her ex-husband Bruce Willis who is the father of her three daughters.
While attending the 2024 Hamptons International Film Festival in New York on Sunday, where she was presented with a career achievement award for acting, the actress described her current condition as 'stable' amid a diagnosis of aphasia and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
'You know, I've said this before. What is a disease? I think you have to embrace it deeply for what it is,' Moore told the audience during a live discussion moderated by Alina Chow. People. 'But where he is, he is stable.'
Two days before the HIFF event, Moore recently met Willis, who has been married for 13 years with her first grandchild, daughter Rumer's daughter Luta.
The longtime Hollywood leading lady accompanies Willis on such trips with the idea of 'sharing what we have, however long.'
Demi Moore, 61, has shared an update on her ex-husband Bruce Willis' health, describing his current condition as 'stable' amid a diagnosis of aphasia and frontotemporal dementia.
The A Few Good Men star believes it's best to stay in the moment about her ex-husband's progress and not think of him in terms of who he's always been in years past.
'What I always encourage is to meet them where they are. “I think it's a losing game when you're holding on,” Los Angeles told his fans and reporters. 'But if you go to meet them where they are, there is great beauty and sweetness.
The former couple met in July at the premiere of the film Stakeout, where Moore attended with her then-fiancé Emilio Esteves.
After the premiere, Moore and Willis began dating, and were on the fast track to marry a few months later in November of the same year.
During their romance they welcomed three daughters, Rumer, 36, who welcomed her first child Luta with partner Derek Richard Thomas in April 2023, Scout, 33, and Tallulah, 30.
They eventually announced their separation in June 1998, but their divorce was not finalized until 2000.
Despite the split, the former couple remained close friends and shared co-parenting duties of their three daughters for years.
Willis married his second wife, Emma Heming, in 2009, and they welcomed their own daughters: Mabel, 12, and Evelyn, 10.
'You know, I've said this before. What is a disease? I think you have to embrace it deeply for what it is,' Moore told the audience during a live discussion moderated by Alina Chow. 'But where He is, He is constant'
Demi Moore has urged families of dementia sufferers to 'let go' of their ex-husband after his diagnosis of aphasia and frontotemporal dementia (FTD); The former couple is seen with daughter Tallulah
Willis and Moore were married from 1987-2000 and shared three children; They were all photographed together in October 2001
The blended family, which includes Willis, his wife Emma Heming, 46, their two daughters Mabel, 12, and Evelyn, 10, Moore, 61, and daughter Tallulah, 30, share outings together.
The former couple have remained friendly since their divorce in 2000
The Die Hard star has been married to his second wife Emma Heming since 2009
During Moore's appearance at HIFF, Moore talked about the highlights of her career, such as Ghost (1990), Indecent Proposal (1993), A Few Good Men (1992), G Jane (1997), and her Broad Back Days. 80s classics include St. Elmo's Fire (1985) and About Last Night… (1986).
Before he was finally presented with the award, he touched on what it meant to watch a reel of his films backstage.
“I felt like I was seeing a lot of life,” he said, “actually feeling like a lifetime because the gift is that we keep changing and growing. All I thought was, 'Thank God, I kept getting opportunities to get better.”
For her latest role, Moore starred in the satirical body horror film The Substance, which dropped in the US and UK in late September alongside Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid.
