By Louise Ginies
Published
December 30 at 6:46 a.m.,
updated December 30 at 7:23 a.m.
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For their 17 years of love, the wife of Bruce Willis declared her love for him, while admitting to feeling sorrow and anger in the face of the actor’s illness, affected by fronto-temporal dementia which left him pushed to end his career in 2022.
A love that lasts and holds despite trials. To celebrate their 17 years of love, Bruce Willis’ wife, Emma Heming, shared a touching statement with him on Instagram this Sunday, December 29. “17 years of us,” wrote the 46-year-old model, under a photo of the couple snuggled together in swimsuits, posing in the ocean facing a sumptuous sunset. A snapshot of warmer weather.
Indeed, for several years, this anniversary no longer seems to have the same flavor. “Birthdays used to be about excitement. Now, if I’m honest, they stir up various feelings, leaving a heaviness in my heart and a pit in my stomach,” wrote Emma Hewing, referring to the actor’s serious health problems.
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In March 2022, the actor Die Hard had been forced to end his career after being diagnosed with aphasia, a speech disorder that disrupted his cognitive abilities. A year later, in February 2023, he received a more specific diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia, an incurable neurodegenerative disease. A diagnosis that weighs on his family on a daily basis.
“Unconditional love”
The wife of Bruce Willis since 2009 has spoken frankly and fragilely about her daily life since the announcement of her husband’s illness. “I give myself 30 minutes to ask myself ‘Why him, why us?’, to feel the anger and the sorrow,” she admitted, before remembering everything that her relationship brings her.
“Then I get rid of it and come back to what is. And what it is, is unconditional love. I feel blessed to know him, and it’s because of him. I would do it again and again in a heartbeat,” she concludes.
