EntertainmentBruce Willis’ wife reveals that symptoms of dementia were confused with stutteringThe actor was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, a disease that affects personality, behavior and languagetoday at 11:29

Emma Hemingwife of Bruce Willisrevealed that some symptoms of the dementia currently faced by the actor were mistaken for stuttering before diagnosis. In an interview with the magazine Town & Country (via People), Heming stated that “bruce He always had a stutter, but he was good at disguising it.”

“To bruce, [a demência] It started in your temporal lobes and then spread to the front of your brain. It attacks and destroys a person’s ability to walk, think, make decisions,” he explained. “His language started to change, it seemed like part of a stutter, it was just bruce. Never in a million years would I have thought it would be a form of dementia in someone so young.”

According to Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, frontotemporal dementia defines a “group of neurodegenerative disorders that affect areas of the brain known as frontal and temporal lobes, associated with personality, behavior and language.”

The model, married to Willis since 2009, continued: “I say frontotemporal dementia whispers, not screams. It’s hard for me to say, ‘This is where bruce ended and where the disease began to take control’. He was diagnosed two years ago, but a year before that we received an inaccurate diagnosis of aphasia, which is a symptom of an illness but not the illness itself.”

“He had a severe stutter as a child. He went to college, and there was a drama teacher there who said, ‘I have something that will help you.’ From that class on, bruce He realized he could memorize a script and recite it without stuttering. That’s what drove him to act,” he said.

According to Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, “there is no cure or specific treatment for frontotemporal dementia”, but “some medications and speech therapy can help delay the progression of symptoms”.

Heming confessed that he is “much better than when he was diagnosed with the disease”. “We have so many plans, so many beautiful things we want to do with our daughters, so many things we want to experience together. You just tear that page out completely, and then how do you rewrite the story? I’m learning to take back control. It might not be the story more beautiful than I could have, but there are glimpses”, he reflected.