Bruce Willis‘ wife Emma Heming Willis is getting honest about their relationship amid his diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia.
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In a new interview with Vanity Fair, the 47-year-old author and wife of the 70-year-old Die Hard actor star got candid about what was going on in their marriage prior to receiving the diagnosis.
If you didn’t know, Emma just penned a book called The Unexpected Journey meant for caregivers about taking on the unexpected role.
During the profile, Emma admitted that she was worried that Bruce was changing from the person she married, or that he didn’t love her anymore, resulting in her considering divorce. (The couple tied the knot in 2009.)
“I felt like my marriage was crumbling,” she admitted to the outlet.
“What is going on? This is not the person that I married. Something is just so off. And I just couldn’t figure it out.”
Of course, once he received the diagnosis, Emma bravely stepped us a caregiver with support from friend and family. But she admits that it’s difficult to remember the good times.
“What was our love story? How did we fall in love?” she reflected in the profile.
“It is so hard right now for me to tap into that time of our life, because I’m so wrapped up in what today is and what it looks like. I hear that from a lot of caregivers too—that it’s hard for them to remember. I’m so happy I’m able to talk to other caregivers now, to know that I’m not crazy, that that is a normal thing,” she went on to say.
She also mourned losing the ability to recall certain private moments with the only other person who remembers.
“It’s only Bruce and I that can be able to relive that and talk about that, or even remember that. I can’t talk to anyone else about that,” she said.
She also reacted to criticism when the public found out they live separately, with him in a home with round-the-clock caregivers.