She nicknamed him “her North Star”.
14 years after his union with Bruce Willis, it is now Emma Heming who guides the steps of the actor.
The model must indeed deal with the disease of the actor, suffering from a form of incurable dementia.
"Bruce's disease has progressed and we now have a more precise diagnosis: frontotemporal dementia", announced the relatives of the latter in a press release published on Thursday, February 16.
Unfortunately, the communication difficulties are only a symptom of the disease that Bruce faces.
Faced with this ordeal, Emma Heming does not intend to give up.
The 44-year-old model even proved to be an unfailing support for her husband.
Since the hero of
Die Hard
(1988) was diagnosed with aphasia, a language disorder caused by brain damage, in March 2022, and retired from acting, she has done everything to help him “lead a life as full as possible.
Emma Heming and the relatives of Bruce Willis would thus ensure that he practices various daily activities, so that "his body and his brain are exercised".
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Memories galore
The model is also said to be trying hard to create fond memories for their daughters Mabel, 10, and Evelyn, 8.
“She would like them to remember Bruce as an incredible and fun father,” an anonymous source recently explained in the columns of
People
.
Witness the multiple Instagram posts of the forties, between family portraits and shots of their escapades in the great outdoors.
Emma Heming also intends to best support the actor in his fight against the disease.
She notably explained on the social network, on Tuesday, February 28, having called on a therapist, Teepa Snow, a specialist in dementia affecting Bruce Willis, to facilitate the daily life of the latter.
The opportunity to raise awareness of its 614,000 subscribers to this cause.
“@emmahemingwillis has done an absolutely outstanding job providing the much needed support to Bruce, whose abilities have changed, creating a space and a daily life for him that continues to provide him with what he needs to live well,” Teepa Snow wrote as a comment to the Instagram post.
And the expert concludes: “Congratulations to Emma and all her family for their hard work and dedication.
It is truly remarkable!”
Demi Moore's friend
The therapist is not the first to fall under the spell of Emma Heming, who has become, over time, the pillar of her clan.
Founder of CocoBaba, a line of beauty products with natural ingredients, she even found an ally in the person of… Demi Moore.
Far from waging a merciless war on him, the ex-wife of Bruce Willis – from 1987 to 2000 – and mother of their daughters Rumer, 34, Scout, 31, and Tallulah, 29, would get along wonderfully with the actor's girlfriend.
“Demi and Emma are very close, confided a source close to them to
People
, in 2020. They have gone on vacation together many times in the past and get along very well.
It really is a happy family.”
To the point that the entire clan was confined together during the Covid-19 pandemic.
A complicity that Demi Moore and Emma Heming shared from the first moments of the romance between the model and Bruce Willis.
In January 2008, the model attended, for example, an afterparty in honor of
Panic in Hollywood
, the film by the actress, unveiled at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Summit meeting
The love at first sight between the actor and the model took place the previous year, while they were training in the gym of their mutual coach.
At the time, Bruce Willis was the big screen superstar we know, having starred in films like
Crystal Trap
(1988),
The Fifth Element
(1997) and
Armageddon
(1998).
The second certainly does not enjoy the same notoriety, but has accepted a few supporting roles in films such as
Perfume
(2001) or
Dangereuse séduction
(2007).
She is best known for her modeling career.
At 16, the young woman, born in Malta in June 1978, was indeed spotted on Channel 4's "Find Me a Supermodel". A real springboard: raised by a British father and an Indo-Guyanese mother, the teenager, who grew up in London, flies to California.
Since then, she has paraded for Chanel, Christian Dior and Valentino.
She has also appeared on the cover of
ELLE, Town & Country
, and
Glamor US magazines.
When she met Bruce Willis in 2007, the top already had 15 years of modeling experience.
And the actor immediately fell in love with the young woman.
Emma Heming is also won over.
“When we met, I was surprised to see how charming, funny and extremely handsome he was,” she declared in the columns of
People
.
But it is thanks to a stay in the mountains that she truly falls in love with the actor.
Witness a vintage video of her and her husband, published on Wednesday, December 28, 2022 on her Instagram account.
We see the couple skiing and sharing a few laughs, during a tubing session or on a snowmobile.
“It was winter 15 years ago and I fell madly in love with him #lovemylife,” Emma Heming captioned the post.
On video, Bruce Willis shares an accomplice video with his daughter
A glamorous couple
The duo sealed their union on March 21, 2009, in the Turks and Caicos Islands, then in Beverly Hills.
He made his first steps as a married couple on the Met Gala red carpet two months later.
In September 2009, Emma Heming and Bruce Willis appeared on the cover of
W Magazine
, and established themselves as Hollywood's new sexy couple.
He poses shirtless, a tattoo overhanging his pecs.
She wears a black wig, a smokey eye and leather gloves.
Three years later, they gave birth to a first child and then to a second, in 2014. In 2019, they renewed their vows on the occasion of their 10th wedding anniversary.
A seemingly cloudless happiness - until the diagnosis of the actor's illness.
Since then, Emma Heming has been trying somehow to maintain hope.
And documents the daily life of her husband in abundance – at the risk, sometimes, of attracting the wrath of Internet users.
"
Drama Queen
"
“My grief can be paralyzing, but I'm learning to live by its side, she said in a post, in August 2022. As my daughter-in-law @scoutlaruewillis told me, grief is the deepest form and the purest of love.”
As moving as it is, this publication had been the subject of strong criticism, because the wife of the comedian had shared this message on the occasion of the National Day of Awareness of Grief.
However, for the time being, Bruce Willis is still very much alive.
Her detractors then attacked her on social networks, calling her a “
drama queen
” (queen of the drama, in French).
However, Emma Heming does not flinch.
She multiplies on Instagram the tributes to this husband that fear has, she says, “never stopped” – and whose light also continues to shine.
