The wife of Hollywood legend Bruce Willis says it is “hard to know” if the actor is fully aware of his condition. Emma Heming Willis has spoken in an interview about his condition - frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

In it, she admitted she was not sure if the Sixth Sense star is aware of what is happening to him. She said: “Hard to know, it’s hard to know.”

She said: "What I’m learning is that dementia is hard. It’s hard on the person diagnosed, it’s also hard on the family and that is no different for Bruce or myself or our girls and when they say that this is a family disease, it really is.”

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News of his condition emerged when the Die Hard star's daughter Rumer Willis announced it in a post to Instagram earlier in the year. The condition is an umbrella term for a group of dementias that mainly affect the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain.

Those areas are responsible for things such as personality, behaviour, language and speech, Dementia UK says. Speaking to NBC’s Today programme in the US about coming to terms with his diagnosis, Emma said: “I think it was the blessing and the curse, to sort of finally understand what was happening, so that I can be into the acceptance of what is. It doesn’t make it any less painful, but… just being in the know of what is happening to Bruce just makes it a little bit easier.”

In March 2022, Rumer had shared on Instagram that her father had been diagnosed with aphasia. This is a disorder that affects communication abilities.

This year, she said he had received a “more specific” diagnosis of FTD. In last year's post, Rumer said her father would be “stepping away from the career that has meant so much to him”.