{"id":549938,"date":"2026-01-28T20:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T20:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/549938\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T20:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T20:22:10","slug":"im-happy-he-doesnt-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/549938\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Happy &#8216;He Doesn&#8217;t Know&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Bruce Willis is living with dementia but doesn&#8217;t realize he has the disease, according to his wife, Emma Heming Willis. In an episode of the podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gHsjHw-JZYA?si=P-_GU8XMZEp-OFDN\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conversations with Cam<\/a>, Heming Willis, 47, says the 70-year-old actor &#8220;never connected the dots&#8221; about his diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia and &#8220;never tapped in&#8221; to what was happening, per <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/01\/28\/celebrity-news\/bruce-willis-doesnt-know-he-has-dementia-says-wife-emma-heming\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Page Six<\/a>. She explains that Willis has anosognosia, a condition in which the brain cannot recognize an existing illness. &#8220;People think this might be denial,&#8221; she says, but it&#8217;s &#8220;a part of the disease,&#8221; associated with brain changes.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Heming Willis previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/340584\/bruce-willis-wife-he-may-not-know-he-is-ill.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">raised the issue<\/a> in 2023, the same year Willis was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, noting it was unclear if he was aware of his condition. &#8220;I&#8217;m really happy that he doesn&#8217;t know about it,&#8221; she now says of the condition that can alter speech, behavior, personality, and movement, per <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/bruce-willis-wife-emma-says-he-doesn-t-know-he-has-dementia-exclusive-11893018\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a>. She says Willis remains &#8220;very much present in his body&#8221; and still connects with her and their children, though in new ways. &#8220;It might not be the same as you would connect with your loved one, but it&#8217;s still very beautiful,&#8221; she says. &#8220;You just learn how to adapt.&#8221;&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Bruce Willis is living with dementia but doesn&#8217;t realize he has the disease, according to his wife,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":549939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[9476,185,435,632,171,101655,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-549938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-bruce-willis","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity","tag-dementia","tag-entertainment","tag-frontotemporal-dementia","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115974592835675979","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}