Bruce Willis's daughter Tallulah wants to use her family's struggles to help other people.
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The 30-year-old actor says she and her family have found it "really special" to use their public platforms to spread awareness after Die Hard star Willis was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
Speaking on The Drew Barrymore Show, Tallulah Willis said her father had a rare, aggressive form of cognitive disease.
"I think (being open) is twofold. On one hand, it's who we are as a family but also it's really important to spread awareness about FTD because we had no idea. And to advance and use, again, it's like the bigger version of what I'm trying to do," she said.
"If we can take something that we're struggling with as a family and individually to help other people, to turn it around, to make something really beautiful out of it, then that's really special for us.
"Part of what's been really beautiful way for me to heal through this is becoming like an archaeologist to my dad's stuff, his world and his little trinkets."
In 2022, Bruce Willis's family - including his other daughters Rumer and Scout, 32, as well as wife Emma Heming and their children Mabel, 12, and nine-year-old Evelyn - announced he was retiring from acting after being diagnosed with speech and language disorder aphasia. The dementia diagnosis was confirmed in 2023.
Just weeks ago, Heming, who married Willis in 2009, insisted she still had "so much" to be grateful for as she cared for her husband.
"I'm doing something that I'm super passionate about that gets me up out of bed," she told E! News.
"I get to be a mother to two incredible young girls. There's really so much to be grateful for and so many things that I'm happy about."
Australian Associated Press
