Bruce Willis' daughter, 'I knew something was wrong' - Lifestyle

"I knew something was wrong." To speak is Tallulah Willis, 29, one of the daughters of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, who, in a moving letter published by Vogue, told the process that led to the diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia for the actor of 'Die Hard' and then to the retirement from the scene, announced by the family in March 2022. "It all started with a vague lack of reaction - says Tallulah - which the family attributed to the hearing loss: "Speak louder! Die Hard messed up with daddy's ears," the actor said. As the signs became sharper, she took it personally and thought her father had lost interest in her because of the new family he had made with his wife Emma Heming Willis and their two children.
"My adolescent mind tortured itself with erroneous conclusions: I'm not beautiful enough for my mother, I'm not interesting enough for my father." The young woman also explained that she initially faced her father's decline by avoiding and rejecting him at the same time, she was also at a time when she suffered from anorexia caused by depression and alcohol addiction. Now she is happy that the family has come together to be close to Willis.
"Every time I go to my father's house - he explains - I dive into tons of photos to treasure things I didn't pay attention to. I saved every message he left me on voicemail, I think I'm trying to document, build a story for the day when he will no longer be here to remember him. Now he still recognizes me and lights up when he sees me."
Tallulah can't help but think of moments she won't be able to share with her father, such as not being able to accompany her one day to the altar and recalled a day when she burst into tears during a wedding in 2021.
"I realized - he writes - that this moment would never be there for me. It was devastating, I got up from the table and left to cry." However, although in the past she was afraid of being overwhelmed by sadness, she is now aware that she is present and a person she can count on. "I enjoy that moment - he concludes - I hold my father's hand and I feel that it is a wonderful thing"