Demi Moore Says There Is 'Great Beauty' in Meeting Ex Bruce Willis Where He Is amid FTD Diagnosis

Mar. 15, 2025

Demi Mooreis sharing an update onBruce Willis' health.

Moore also detailed her personal outlook on the disease, which Bruce’s wife Emma Heming Willisrevealedhe was diagnosed with last year following his spring 2022 diagnosis ofaphasia.

Demi Moore, Bruce Willis.Kristina Bumphrey/Variety via Getty; Theo Wargo/Getty

Demi Moore, Bruce Willis

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“You know, I’ve said this before. The disease is what the disease is. And I think you have to be in real deep acceptance of what that is,” Moore told the festival audience. “But for where he’s at, he is stable.”

“What I always encourage is to just meet them where they’re at. When you’re holding on to what was, I think it’s a losing game,” she added of theDie Hardstar. “But when you show up to meet them where they’re at, there is great beauty and sweetness.”

As Moore explained, she was just visiting Bruce “two days ago” with her granddaughter, daughterRumer’s toddler,Louetta. “And being able to share with whatever we have, for however long we have it,” she said of spending time with her ex-husband.

Demi Moore at the Hamptons Film Festival on Oct. 13.Sonia Moskowitz/Getty

Demi Moore poses on the red carpet before her conversation at the 2024 Hamptons Film Festival

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Moore shares daughters Rumer, 36,Scout, 33, andTallulah, 30, with Bruce. She previously said onThe Drew Barrymore Showlast month that “given the givens, [Bruce] is in a stable place."

Bruce Willis in 2019.Ian West/PA Images via Getty

Bruce Willis attending the Glass European Premiere held at the Curzon Mayfair, London

Elsewhere during the discussion at the film festival — during which Moore reflected on multiple career highlights including 1990’sGhost, 1993’sIndecent Proposaland 1997’sG.I. Jane— she touched on what it meant to her to watch a reel of her films backstage before she was eventually presented with her award.

“I felt like I was watching a lot of life,” she said. “Actually feels like lifetimes, because the gift is that we get to keep changing and growing. What I was thinking is, ‘Thank God I kept getting opportunities to get better.’ "

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Last month, in conversation withThe Guardian, Moore detailed her relationship with her own body over the years and the “self-judgement” explored in her latest film.

“We’ve all had moments where you go back and you’re trying to fix something, and you’re just making it worse to the point where you’re incapacitated,” she told the outlet. “We’re seeing these small things nobody else is looking at, but we’re so hyper-focused on all that we’re not. All of us, if we start to think our value is only with how we look then ultimately we’re going to be crushed.”

The Substanceis currently in theaters.

source: people.com