A few months ago, Bruce Willis’s family confirmed sad news: the actor temporarily withdrew from acting after being diagnosed with aphasia, a neurological disorder that affected the ability to communicate through speech and writing, due to brain problems. A disease that later became another more worrying diagnosis, since it was learned that the interpreter suffers from frontotemporal dementia.
A situation to which his family is trying to adapt as soon as possible, since the actor seems to be getting worse faster than expected. His wife, Emma Heming, has spoken about what frustration is like in her day-to-day life; and now it is one of her daughters, Tallulah, 29, who wanted to tell how she felt after learning about the suffering of her father.
He has done so in an article for Vogue magazine, where he talks about pain, grief, recovering from it and moving on. Bruce Willis’s daughter talks about his self-esteem issues, how seeing himself on the Internet, and criticism from strangers landed him in therapy. She also talks about how she learned to protect herself, and how now she can’t protect her father from him.
Tallulah reveals that she knew long before the family announced her father’s illness that she had known something was wrong for a long time. “Sometimes I took it personally,” she admits, “I had had two babies with my stepmother and I thought she had lost interest in me. My brain was racked with some faulty math. ‘I’m not beautiful enough for my father, no I’m interesting enough.’ Couldn’t have been further from the truth,” she laments.
The youngest daughter of the three that the actor had with Demi Moore is not too proud of how she faced the beginning of her father’s illness, but she was not having a much better time either, because as she confesses, she suffered from anorexia nervosa, eating disorder the one who even had to enter a medical center, since the depression that he has also suffered for several years worsened. In addition, she was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Looking back, Tallulah regrets not spending more time with her father. “While I was wrapped up in my body dysmorphia, my dad was struggling in silence,” she says.
After breaking off their engagement, Tallulah was diagnosed with a new illness: borderline personality disorder. After being put on the correct medication, she discovered another way to live life and, above all, to be present for her father, who luckily shows no symptoms of dementia in her mobility.
“I feel like I can trust myself and hold my father’s hand,” says the young woman, “I know this is the beginning of the pain. I keep jumping back and forth between the present and the past when I talk about Bruce: he is, he was, he It is, he was. That’s because I have hopes for my father that I refuse to let go,” he explains, before acknowledging that they are very similar and he would love for them to have more time to enjoy together.
