Bruce Willis health update: Daughter Rumer praises family unit as actor’s dementia battle continues

Rumer Willis has lifted the lid on her famous family and shared an update on her father’s health amid his battle with frontotemporal dementia.

Rumer, 36, who is the daughter of Hollywood stars Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, said Bruce, 69, is “doing great” in a new TV interview.

She also praised her family, saying they all “rally around each other,” and praised her parents for being role models with how they handled their divorce and co-parenting in the years since.

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Rumer Willis praises her family unit amid her father Bruce’s frontotemporal dementia battle. (Getty)

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Bruce and Demi share Rumer, Tallulah Willis, 31, and Scout LaRue Willis, 33. 

The Die Hard star is now married to Emma Heming Willis, 46, and they share two children together.

”He’s doing great,” Rumer said on Loose Women when asked about her father.

”Because my family, we’re all so close, I think what’s so beautiful is the way that we rally around each other.

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“I think what’s so beautiful is the way that we rally around each other,” she said. (ITV/Loose Women/YouTube)

“[It’s] so lovely, because we really are a unit.”

Speaking about her parents’ split – they were married from 1987-2000 – she said they were still dedicated co-parents and a family unit.

“I think the thing I’m most grateful for is that even when they split up, they created such a beautiful foundation of prioritising my sisters and I, that I never felt like I had to choose or, like, they never played against each other,” she explained.

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“They created such a beautiful foundation of prioritising my sisters and I, that I never felt like I had to choose.” (Ron Galella Collection via Getty)

”We were a family, and we still are very much a family no matter what… I feel deep gratitude for the example they’ve set.”

Bruce was diagnosed with aphasia in 2022, before being additionally diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

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Bruce Willis seen in heartwarming snap with granddaughter

The news shocked the world as his family put on a united front.

Rumer recently told Fox News Digital the family often share updates on Bruce to perhaps give others hope if they’re going through the same thing.

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Rumer recently said the family often share updates on Bruce to perhaps give others hope. (Getty Images For Comedy Central)

“I think, for me, through this experience, what’s been so incredible is my dad is so beloved, and that’s been so evident in the transparency with which we’ve been sharing,” she said.

“And I think if there’s any way sharing our experience brings hope – whatever comes forward as a family – that can have an effect and bring any sort of hope, comfort to someone else experiencing that, then to me, that’s … everything.”

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