Bruce Willis’ dementia diagnosis: ‘language is going’, says actor’s wife

Emma Heming Willis recalls the actor's alarming and scary' early symptoms and says his family has learned to adapt' as his brain is failing' amid really great health overall'

Bruce Willis's brain is failing him" and his language is going", his wife, Emma Heming Willis, has revealed, more than two years since the actor was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.

Bruce is still very mobile. Bruce is in really great health overall, you know," Heming Willis told Diane Sawyer in an ABC special on Tuesday. It's just his brain that is failing him. The language is going. We've learned to adapt and we have a way of communicating with him, which is just a different way."