Rumer Willis has shared a touching tribute to her father Bruce Willis as he battles dementia and is now reportedly non-verbal.
Rumer, 35, shared a throwback image of the pair collectively when she was a child and stated she’s ”lacking him at this time”.
“Actually lacking my papa at this time,” Rumer captioned her submit on Tuesday.
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One follower commented beneath: “He’s nonetheless in there, candy lady. Generally it is perhaps arduous for him to specific it. His love for you’ll by no means change ❤️.”
“Hold speaking to him. He can hear you. He can perceive you. He is aware of you. Love him such as you all the time do. He is nonetheless there,” one other added.
It comes after her sister Tallulah posted a sequence of throwback pictures of herself on Instagram with their Hollywood star father and stated she was “so proud” to be his daughter and have his title.
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“Rattling, these pictures are hitting tonight. Youre [sic] my complete rattling coronary heart and Im [sic] so proud to be your Tallulah Belle Bruce Willis,” she wrote.
In a single picture, Tallulah poses in a Die Onerous sweater, in a nod to his iconic motion sequence franchise of the identical title.
In one other shot, the pair hug whereas sitting on a lounge.
Earlier this month, Tallulah gave followers an replace on her father’s situation, whereas showing on The Drew Barrymore Present. He’s battling frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
“He has a extremely aggressive cognitive illness, a type of dementia that is very uncommon,” she stated.
“He is identical, which I believe, on this regard, I’ve discovered is the most effective factor you’ll be able to ask for.”
Being open about Bruce’s progress is “vital,” Tallulah stated, including that her household’s objective is to “unfold consciousness about FTD.”
“If we are able to take one thing that we’re fighting as a household, individually, to assist different folks, to show it round, to make one thing stunning about it – that is actually particular for us,” she stated.
In keeping with the Mayo Clinic, FTD is an “umbrella time period for a gaggle of mind issues that primarily have an effect on the frontal and temporal lobes of the mind. These areas of the mind are usually related to persona, behaviour and language.”
Bruce’s good friend and Moonlighting collaborator Glenn Gordon Caron instructed the New York Publish that the actor is non-verbal, including that “all these language abilities are now not out there to him, and but he is nonetheless Bruce.”
– Further reporting by CNN.
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