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Bruce Willis: Daughter Tallulah opens up about his dementia for the first time!
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James White
Your words go deep…
Tallulah Willis (29), the daughter of action star Bruce Willis (68) and actress Demi Moore (60), speaks for the first time about her father’s serious illness and her difficult youth in the shadow of her famous Hollywood parents.
In an essay of the “ Vogue“ she shows herself vulnerable and reflected. She only learned through therapy to allow bad feelings.
Painful feelings, like her father’s serious illness, whom she calls “Daddio”. The actor (“Die Hard”) was born in February diagnosed with dementia. This was initially shown in a speech disorder, but the star is now more and more restricted.
“I thought he lost interest in me”
She remembers the beginnings of the disease: “I knew for a long time that something was wrong. It started insidiously, he often didn’t react. Our family put it down to a Hollywood hearing loss. ‘Say it out loud! ‘Die hard’ screwed up Dad’s ears,’ we used to joke.”
Over time, the symptoms worsen. But Tallulah blames herself: “I took it personally sometimes. He had with my stepmother Emma Heming Willis had two babies and I thought he just lost interest in me.”
Her self-doubts date back to her childhood. She is 11 and visiting with mom Demi Moore and her partner at the time Ashton Kutcher (45 today) an event in New York. Photos of her end up on the internet. Comment users.
“Wow, she looks deformed.” And: “Look at her man jaw – she’s like an ugly version of her father.” Another: “Her mother must be so disappointed.”
“I thought I had stumbled upon a truth that no one had told me,” Tallulah recalled in the Vogue essay.
She didn’t feel loved by her parents
She quarrels with herself. Begins to question her parents’ love. “I’m not beautiful enough for my mother, not interesting enough for my father.” She develops a severe depression. Your family is very worried. Four years ago she pulled the ripcord, was admitted to a clinic, received medication and slowly began to feel better again.
But her suffering finds new ways. She develops an eating disorder. And: She is so busy with herself that she illness of her father hides.
“While I was flaunting the struggle with my body on Instagram, my dad struggled in secret,” she tells Vogue. “I’ve been in denial about Bruce’s decline for years and I’m not proud of it. The truth is I felt too ill myself to deal with it.”
She hardly realizes his diagnosis of dementia. “The good feelings didn’t come through, the bad ones weren’t really there either,” she recalls.
She won’t understand until the summer of 2021. “I was at a wedding. The father of the bride gave a moving speech. I suddenly realized that my father would no longer be able to speak for me at my wedding. It knocked the ground out from under my feet.”
In early 2022, her family made Willis’ diagnosis public
After Tallulah’s Fiancé Dillon Bass (34) dumped her almost at the same time, the situation escalated. She’s starving herself down to forty kilos. Her body freezes, she often has to go on a drip. And come back to a clinic. She only returns home six months later.
She begins to understand what her father is going through. The two get closer again.
“When I’m in his house, I take a lot of photos, collecting pictures like an archaeologist. I have his voicemails on a hard drive and am trying to create an archive for the day he will be gone.”
The difficult relationship with her father shaped her life. In fact, the two are actually very similar. “He was cool, charming, elegant, classy and sweet and a little crazy – and I like all of that,” she enthuses. And then there is this sadness.
“I have a lot of elements of his personality in me and just know that if only we had more time, we would be such good friends.”
Source: Asia Times
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