On Opening Up About Her Dad's Dementia: WE WANT TO SPREAD HOPE

The actress talks about her family’s brave decision to share their emotional journey with the world

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Rumer Willis and her family have been graciously keeping fans updated on the health of their A-list actor dad, Bruce, since 2022 when the actress — along with her two sisters, Tallulah and Scout, their famous mom, Demi Moore, and Bruce’s current wife, Emma Heming — revealed that the Die Hard actor, 69, had been diagnosed with aphasia. (In 2023, they announced the disease had progressed to frontotemporal dementia.) “My dad is so beloved, that’s been so evident,” Rumer, 35, told In Touch’s Lindsay Hoffman at the premiere of her new comedy, My Divorce Party, at the 24th annual Beverly Hills Film Festival in LA on May 1. “In sharing our experience, if that can have an effect and bring any of sort of hope or comfort to someone else, that to me is everything.” Here, the mom to 13-month-old Louetta (dad is Rumer’s partner, musician Derek Richard Thomas) talks about Bruce, motherhood and body positivity.

How’s your dad doing?

RW: Good, really good.

What’s been the greatest lesson you’ve learned from your parents?