Demi Moore offered a new heath update on her ex-husband, Bruce Willis, amid the retired actor’s ongoing battle with frontotemporal dementia as she accepted an award at a special event over the weekend.
Moore, 61, has offered rare updates on the Die Hard star’s condition since he announced his diagnosis in early 2023. On Sunday, Oct. 13, Moore was participating in a discussion at the 2024 Hamptons International Film Festival, where she received a Career Achievement in Acting Award, when she provided some insight on her ex-husband’s current condition.
Willis “is stable” for “where he’s at,” The Substance actress told those in attendance for the festival discussion event, according to People. Moore went on to explain that she believes it is necessary “to be in real deep acceptance” of what Willis is facing, adding that it was “a losing game” for those “holding on to what was.”
Instead, Moore said that, “when you show up to meet them where they’re at, there is great beauty and sweetness.”
Though Moore and Willis have been divorced since 2000, they remained close while raising their children. The two share three daughters: Rumer, 36, Scout, 33, and Tallulah, 30. They also share a granddaughter, Rumer’s 1-year-old daughter Louetta.
Moore was able to experience some of that “great beauty and sweetness” last week when she and Louetta spent time with The Sixth Sense actor, she told festival attendees.
Willis, 69, retired from acting in 2022 when he announced that he had been diagnosed with aphasia, a condition that makes it difficult for a person to understand or express themselves through language. In the spring of 2023, the Willis family announced that he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.
Moore’s comments on Sunday about Willis’ condition followed remarks she made last month during an appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show. While speaking with host Drew Barrymore, Moore described her ex in an identical way, saying that he was “in a stable place” and that she advised people with family members facing similar dementia battles to not “hold on to who they were or what you want them to be, but who they are in this moment.”
