Emma Heming Willis decided to put an end to one of the most frequent and erroneous doubts surrounding the health of her husband, the renowned actor Bruce Willis.

In a recent interview on The Bossticks podcast, the 47-year-old model and businesswoman clarified an important public misunderstanding: the illness of the protagonist of “Die Hard” has not erased his family memories.

“When people ask, 'Do you remember who you are?', I say, 'Yes, of course you do, because you don't have Alzheimer's, you have FTD,'” Heming explained.

The actor's wife explained that there is widespread confusion that immediately links any type of dementia with total memory loss. However, frontotemporal dementia (FTD), formally diagnosed in Willis in 2023 after retiring due to aphasia, works differently.

According to Heming, FTD has three main variants that damage different areas of the brain: one affects behavior, another affects movement, and a third affects language. The latter is what the 71-year-old actor suffers from. For this reason, the interpreter still perfectly recognizes both her and her daughters.

Despite this cognitive relief, the situation remains an enormous emotional challenge. Heming described her role as a caregiver as a process of “ambiguous mourning,” where one mourns the loss of someone who is still physically present.

"These diseases take things away from you very slowly. You feel like you are in constant mourning," he confessed.

With their statements, the Willis family seeks to make visible the realities of FTD and break the stigmas of a condition that usually occurs in people under 60 years of age.