Hollywood star Bruce Willis’ wife has admitted that she “needs help” amid the actor’s recent dementia diagnosis.
It was revealed last year that Bruce had been diagnosed with a form of dementia called frontotemporal dementia (known as FTD). His family confirmed the star, 68, had been told of his condition in the spring of 2022, reports ‘Mirror.co.uk’.
The ‘Die Hard’ star’s closest initially said he was suffering from language disorder aphasia before they had the heartbreaking news that his condition had progressed to frontotemporal dementia.
In her recently uploaded YouTube video, Emma told her subscribers about her journey with Bruce and shared that she needs to “learn to ask for help” before explaining that “this is a marathon and not a sprint”.
She said, quoted by ‘Mirror.co.uk’, “I would like for people looking at this journey from the outside to feel like they have ways to effectively step in. Usually, what tends to happen is the friend asks what they can do to help, but that just puts another added task on a caregiver to have to dictate, then teach and most times we just don’t have the bandwidth for it”.
She added, “But what I know is we do need help and we do need to learn to ask for it because if we don’t it is not sustainable. This is a marathon and not a sprint. You do need to call in the help and the support because it’s just not sustainable”. (IANS)
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