Emma Heming, wife of Bruce Willis, has shared in a conference how she felt when she found out about the illness that her husband was suffering from and, at the same time, the relief she experienced when it became public.
The Willis family is going through, without a doubt, one of the most complicated tests that a family can face and that is the illness of one of its members. Since actor Bruce Willis was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, his wife, his daughters and his ex-wife Demi Moore have come together even more to care for him during the process.
Emma Heming, who has been married to Bruce for more than 15 years, is trying to give more visibility to her husband's illness and often uses her social networks to share her reality. She always does it without tricks or tricks, opening up to her followers about how complicated it is and how they live with it. Additionally, she attends events where she tries to help other families in the same situation and talks about her experience.
In her last talk at the AFTD Educational Conference she recalled that she "desperately needed support" when she found out about Bruce's dementia diagnosis and how she felt once everything that was happening in the family became public. her.
"I could breathe. I could really exhale and feel the weight lift off my shoulders. But everything changed for the better once we were able to reveal his diagnosis. I was able to seek the support I so desperately needed for my husband and our entire family," she said. Heming.
AFTD published a clip on social media with these words that Emma said, but she herself also wanted to share them through her Instagram account to explain what her goal is with all of this.
"My mission is to create as much awareness as possible about FTD. My goal? To one day see a treatment and a cure," Emma said.
In this way and with her very clear ideas, Emma Heming is trying not only to help her husband, but also to provide help to all families who currently need support to face a degenerative disease.
