Emma Heming Willis Says Bruce Willis Is Unaware of Dementia

Emma Heming Willis said on the Conversations With Cam podcast on Jan. 28, 2026 that 70-year-old Bruce Willis "never tapped in" and does not recognize his frontotemporal dementia.

The disclosure follows the family's March 2022 announcement that Willis stepped away from acting because of aphasia and a Feb. 2023 update that his diagnosis was frontotemporal dementia, according to family statements.

Heming Willis said she is "really happy" that he is unaware and attributed his lack of recognition to anosognosia, which the Mayo Clinic defines as an inability to recognize one’s own medical condition.

Heming Willis said Willis lives with round-the-clock caregivers in a second home near the family's residence and that he and Heming Willis share daughters Mabel, 13, and Evelyn, 11, while Willis also has three adult daughters, Rumer Glenn Willis, 37, Scout LaRue Willis, 34, and Tallulah Willis, 31, with ex-wife Demi Moore.

Heming Willis said the family has adapted its caregiving routines and discussed those adjustments in her Jan. 28, 2026 podcast appearance and in her Sept. 2025 memoir, which she said documents their ongoing care plan.