Rumer Willis, the eldest daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, marked Father’s Day with an emotional put up on Instagram during which she advised her followers that “as we speak is tough” as her father continues to battle frontotemporal dementia. Bruce retired from performing in 2022 amid an aphasia prognosis. His household introduced his dementia a 12 months later, writing on social media: “Whereas that is painful, it’s a reduction to lastly have a transparent prognosis.”

“Right now is tough, I really feel a deep ache in my chest to speak to you and let you know every part I’m doing and what’s happening in my life,” Rumer Willis wrote on Father’s Day in a message to Bruce. “To hug you and ask you about life and your tales and struggles and successes. I want I requested you extra questions whilst you might nonetheless inform me about all of it. However I do know you wouldn’t need me to be unhappy as we speak so I’ll attempt to simply be grateful reminding myself how fortunate I’m that you just’re my dad and that you just’re nonetheless with me and I can nonetheless maintain you and hug you and kiss your cheek and rub your head I can let you know tales.”

“I’ll be pleased about each second I’ve with you,” Rumer added. “Sending like to all those that are within the boat with me or have misplaced their fathers, to the only mothers who’re the dads, too.”

Emma Heming Willis, who married Bruce in 2009, additionally posted a Father’s Day message on Instagram during which she despatched love “to all of the dads residing with incapacity or illness, displaying up within the methods they will and to the kids who present up for them.”

“What Bruce teaches our women goes far past phrases,” Emma wrote. “Resilience, unconditional love, and the quiet power in merely being current… However to be honest to myself, these symbolic days fire up lots.
I’m profoundly unhappy as we speak. I want, with each cell in my physique, that issues could possibly be totally different for him and lighter for our household. As they are saying in our FTD group, ‘It’s what it’s.’ And whereas which may sound dismissive, to me, it’s not. It grounds me. It helps me return to the acceptance of what’s and never battle this each step of the way in which like I used to.”

Bruce Willis’ household, together with Demi Moore, celebrated his seventieth birthday on the finish of March by posting uncommon photographs of the retired actor on social media.