Bruce Willis' daughter Tallulah shares personal snaps after heartbreaking update on his dementia battle
The 31-year-old fashion designer took to Instagram on Sunday to post a gallery of snaps as she spent time with her 70-year-old famous father.
One of the most intimate snaps showed Tallulah lovingly embrace Bruce who sweetly wrapped her arms around his youngest daughter.
Another photo shared the two sharing a laugh together as Tallulah sat on the floor while holding onto the Die Hard star's hand as he sat in a chair.
Lastly, Tallulah shared a cute snap of Bruce posing with musician fiance Justin Acee who had a massive smile on his face.
She shared the gallery of personal photos: 'Sunday funday at Grams ! Grateful [turtle dove emoji]'
This comes as Tallulah's older sister daughter Rumer gave a sad update about her famous father in a Father's Day tribute post.
The 36-year-old actress candidly wrote: 'Today is hard, I feel a deep ache in my chest to talk to you and tell you everything I'm doing and what's going on in my life. To hug you and ask you about life and your stories and struggles and successes.'
The House Bunny star seemed to make the heartbreaking admission that Bruce was having trouble with his speech and memory.
Rumer continued: 'I wish I asked you more questions while you could still tell me about it all.
'But I know you wouldn't want me to be sad today so I'll try to just be grateful reminding myself how lucky I am that you're my dad and that you're still with me and I can still hold you and hug you and kiss your cheek and rub your head I can tell you stories.'
She also shared a sweet snap of Bruce with her two-year-old daughter Louetta as she reflected on their bond.
Rumer wrote: 'I can watch the way your eyes light up when you see Louetta I will be grateful for every moment I have with you. I love you so much dad happy Father's Day.
'Sending love to all those who are in the boat with me or have lost their fathers, to the single moms who are the dads too, to my future baby daddy… [ red heart emoji]'
Rumer was not the only one who got candid about Bruce on the holiday as his wife Emma Heming shared an emotional Father's Day post.
On Sunday morning, the 46-year-old actress, who shares daughters Mabel, 12, and Evelyn, 10, with legendary action star paid tribute to her longtime spouse on Instagram.
'Happy Father's Day to all the dads living with disability or disease, showing up in the ways they can and to the children who show up for them,' she captioned a sweet snap of Willis sharing a sweet hug with one of their little girls on the couch.
Heming continued: 'What Bruce teaches our girls goes far beyond words. Resilience, unconditional love, and the quiet strength in simply being present. This photo says so much. Love deepens. It adapts. It stays, even when everything else changes.'
Still, the mother-of-two admitted that 'these symbolic days stir up a lot' of emotion for her.
'I'm profoundly sad today. I wish, with every cell in my body, that things could be different for him and lighter for our family,' Heming explained. 'As they say in our FTD community, 'It is what it is.'
'And while that might sound dismissive, to me, it's not. It grounds me. It helps me return to the acceptance of what is and not fight this every step of the way like I used to.'
Willis, who passionately advocates for patients and caretakers dealing with incurable diseases, concluded her caption by writing: 'Today, let's celebrate the bada** dads, those who are here, and those we carry with us. Onward.'
Rumer, 36, shared snaps of she with the 70-year-old action manthroughout the years in a pensive Father's Day tribute post on Sunday
On her Instagram Story, Heming shared throwback photos of her husband taking their kids to the park and the Natural History Museum.
'I miss and mourn what was,' she wrote. 'I want it all back.'
Last month, Heming was honored by Maria Shriver's Women's Alzheimer's Movement (WAM) at Cleveland Clinic.
She received the organization's Caregiving Award for her 'outstanding work in advocating for unpaid family caregivers.'
While accepting the honor she reflected on 'the day Bruce got his diagnosis' and how they 'left the doctor's office with a pamphlet and a hollow goodbye.'
'No plan, no guidance, no hope, just shock,' she said. 'The future we imagined simply vanished, and I was left trying to hold my family together, raise our two young daughters, and care for the man I love while navigating a disease I barely understood,' Heming shared.
Heming continued: 'I needed someone to look me in the eye and say, "This feels impossible right now, but you will find your footing. You will survive this and you will grow because of it."'
'There's no roadmap or guide to becoming a caregiver,' Heming added. 'We desperately need more education and support resources for those in this 24/7/365 role.'
Since publicly announcing her husband's diagnosis in February 2023, Heming has worked tirelessly to share information with others navigating a similar journey.
In addition to Mabel and Evelyn, Willis shares three daughters — Rumer, 36, Scout, 33, and Tallulah, 31 — with his ex-wife Demi Moore.
Rumer sweetly shared her stepmother's post on her Instagram Story to show her support.
In May, Rumer revealed that her daughter, Louetta, who she shares with ex-boyfriend Derek Richard Thomas, is 'obsessed' with her grandfather.
'Even with my dad, given the challenges that he's dealing with, whenever we go over there to visit, his face just lights up and he gets so excited and is so sweet with her,' she told People of her father.
'My family is so incredible with her. I feel so lucky, and she's so lucky. I mean, they are obsessed with her.'
Rumer also noted that Louetta is equally close to her grandmother.
'They love each other. I mean, you should see her face light up when they're on FaceTime when we're away,' Rumer gushed of Moore.
'She just gets so excited and it's sweet, and my mom is so incredible with babies. She always has been, and so it's such a delight to see them together,' she raved.
The Willis family has remained extremely tight knit despite Demi and Bruce's divorce in 2000 after 13 years of marriage.
They celebrate holidays together, along with Hemming, and they have rallied around the Glass actor amid his tragic health battle.
Bruce has stepped away from public life after his diagnosis of frontotemporal aphasia in 2022.
The condition progressed and the family announced he was suffering from frontotemporal dementia in 2023.
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