Bruce Willis just turned a year older.
On Tuesday, March 19, the actor celebrated his 69th birthday and his wife, Emma Heming Willis, took to Instagram to mark the occasion. Her post featured a photo of Bruce holding one of his children when he was a baby. “Just like you, we just adore him,” she began her caption.
“What you may not know, but maybe you can imagine, is that being wrapped in his arms is the safest place in this entire world,” the caption continued. “He is a true gentleman. With so much love to give and share. That's what I can see, the real core of him. I can tell you that he is so pure and so good.”
He finished the caption: “Happy birthday my love. “You are the gift that keeps on giving.”
The tribute comes after Heming shared an update on her husband's health after reports emerged that he is living “joylessly” following his dementia diagnosis.
He die hard The star's wife said she wanted to debunk false narratives about how her husband lives, after she was “clicked” by a headline about his family.
Heming said the action star is still living a life of “love, connection, joy and happiness” following his frontotemporal dementia (FTD) diagnosis.
FTD is an umbrella term for a group of dementias that primarily affect the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, which are responsible for aspects such as personality, behaviour, language and speech, according to Dementia UK.
In a video on Instagram, Hemming said: “The headline basically says there is no joy in my husband anymore.
“Now I can tell you that that is far from the truth.
“I need society – and whoever is writing these stupid headlines – to stop scaring people.
“Stop scaring people into thinking that once they receive a diagnosis of some type of neurocognitive disease, 'it's over, it's over.' Let's pack it up. We're… There's nothing else to see here. We're done.' No. It's the complete opposite of that.”
And he added: “There is sorrow and sadness. There's all that. But you begin a new chapter.”
Heming said that chapter is full “of love, it is full of connection, it is full of joy, it is full of happiness. That's where we are. So stop those stupid headlines. These stupid clickbait things that scare people. Stop doing that. There's nothing to see here, okay?
In a caption of the post, he added: “My experience is that two things can be true and exist at the same time. Pain and deep love. Sadness and deep connection. Trauma and resilience.
“I had to do everything I could to get here, but once I got here, life really started to take on meaning and I had a real sense of purpose. “There is so much beauty and feeling in this story.”
In March 2022, it was revealed for the first time that Bruce Willis had been diagnosed with aphasia, a disorder that affects the ability to communicate.
Last year, his daughter Rumer provided an update explaining that she had received a “more specific” diagnosis of FTD.
