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TV review Surprisingly touching tribute to a fading star
The Guardian
|August 30, 2025
On paper, it looks dreadful. A Diane Sawyer interview with the second wife of a beloved actor now suffering from a life-changing disease to coincide with the launch of said wife's book about her experiences as a care giver? Pass the bucket, give me strength, have some dignity - these are just some of the natural and instinctive responses to such news.
So one approaches Emma and Bruce Willis: The Unexpected Journey - A Diane Sawyer Special with a trepidation verging on dread. Sawyer does not help. She is the doyenne of the sympathetic/emetic head tilt and master of the pained expression. Her furrowed brow invites us to imagine she is being forced at gunpoint to ask intimate questions, and her self-penned scripts are inexcusable. "His quiet dream girl shared his working-class values though they were from wildly different backgrounds," she softly intones over photos and footage of Willis and his soon-to-be fiancee Emma Heming from their early days together, "before the joyful ride began". But alas, "No one in life knows when there is a shadow about to creep
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