Bruce Willis’ Wife Emma Explains He ‘Doesn’t Know’ He Has Dementia: ‘Never Tapped In’

Bruce Willis’ wife Emma Heming Willis is revealing that the actor “never connected the dots” about his frontotemporal dementia diagnosis. During an appearance on the “Conversations with Cam” podcast, which aired Jan. 28, the 47-year-old explained to host Cameron Oaks Rogers that, due to his condition, her husband “never tapped in.” “There’s this term, this neurological condition that sort of comes with FTD, and other types of dementia as well, called anosognosia where your brain can’t identify what is happening to it. So, when people think this might be denial, like they don’t want to go to the doctor because they’re like, ‘I’m fine, I’m fine.’ Actually, this is anosognosia that comes into play,” she shared, adding, “It’s not denial, it’s just that their brain is changing. This is a part of the disease. So, you know, I think that’s like the blessing and the curse of this is that, Bruce never, never tapped in. He never connected the dots that he had this disease.” Heming Willis went on to reveal that she’s “really happy that he doesn’t know about it.”