Emma Hemming's Father's Day Tribute to Husband Bruce Willis Will Melt Your Heart
Emma Heming Willis is honoring her husband, Bruce Willis, on Father's Day by paying tribute to every father navigating life with illness or disability.
In a moving Instagram post on Sunday, Emma — who shares two daughters with Bruce — wrote:
'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 wrote on Instagram alongside a photo with Bruce. '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.'
Emma shares two daughters with Bruce: Evelyn , 11, and Mabel, 13.
She continued: 'But to be fair to myself, these symbolic days stir up a lot. 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.
'As they say in our FTD community, 'It is what it is,'' she continued. '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. Today, let's celebrate the badass dads, those who are here, and those we carry with us 💙 Onward.'
Bruce was first diagnosed with aphasia in March 2022, a language disorder that affects communication. Less than a year later, in February 2023, his family publicly shared that the actor's condition had progressed and he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, a rare and cruel neurodegenerative disease that impacts behavior, language, and cognitive function.
Since then, the family — including his five daughters, three of whom he shares with ex-wife Demi Moore — have remained steadfastly by his side.
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