Bruce Willis' Wife Shares Anniversary Post: Anger, Grief

Bruce Willis' wife, Emma Heming Willis, celebrated 15 years of marriage with an emotional post on Instagram amid the "Die Hard" actor's battle with dementia.

"Anniversaries used to bring excitement — now, if I'm honest, they stir up all the feelings, leaving a heaviness in my heart and a pit in my stomach," the model wrote Sunday in a post that featured the couple together in the ocean.

"I give myself 30 minutes to sit in the 'why him, why us,' to feel the anger and grief," she continued. "Then I shake it off and return to what is. And what is … is unconditional love. I feel blessed to know it, and it's because of him. I'd do it all over again and again in a heartbeat."

The couple began their relationship in 2007, seven years after Willis ended his marriage to Demi Moore, Page Six reported. They exchanged vows in 2009 and became parents to two daughters, Mabel, now 12, and Evelyn, now 10.

Bruce Willis, 69, also has three adult daughters — Rumer, 36, Scout, 33, and Tallulah, 30 —from his previous marriage to Moore, which lasted from 1987 to 2000.

In February of last year, his family revealed that, after stepping away from acting in March 2022 because of aphasia, he was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.

In a subsequent interview with Hoda Kotb on the "Today" show, Heming Willis, 46, admitted the diagnosis was tough on their family.

"What I'm learning is that dementia is hard," she said. "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."

Earlier this year, Heming Willis spoke out against the media after a report emerged stating "there is no more joy" in her husband's life as he battles frontotemporal dementia.

Taking to Instagram at the time, Heming Willis admitted she was "clickbaited" by a headline that had to "do with my own family."

The story, she said, "triggered" her. She did not identify the publication, but stated that the headline was "far from the truth," adding that the reality was "the complete opposite of that."

"A hundred percent there is grief and sadness and there is all of that, but you start a new chapter," she said.

Heming Willis went on to slam the media for "scaring people."

"I need society and whoever's writing these stupid headlines to stop scaring people, stop scaring people to think that once they get a diagnosis of some kind of neurocognitive disease that that's it, it's over, let's pack it up, nothing else to see here, we're done," she said.

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