[bitontheslide]

Actor Bruce Willis has frontotemporal dementia, his family announces on social media

In spring 2022, he was diagnosed with aphasia - which causes difficulties with speech - but this has progressed and he has been given a more specific diagnosis, the family said.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64670521

Poor guy

[arista]

Thats sad.

[GoldHeart]

Really sad, I was watching discovering film and his most well known films were being discussed . I know he had to retire from acting unfortunately.

[Kate!]

I heard this ages ago.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Kate!

I heard this ages ago.

I'd say you probably heard he had Aphasia ages ago. This is new information I'm pretty sure, the article says his family just announced it

[Kate!]

No, early onset dementia I heard.

[bitontheslide]

this was only announced by his family today

[Kate!]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

this was only announced by his family today

I did a thread about it. But I can't use the search facility to find it.

[Niamh.]

https://www.thisisbigbrother.com/for...t=bruce+willis

Aphasia

[GiRTh]

Wow!!! Heart breaking.

I work primarily with Dementia sufferers. Its an awful disease, with no cure, that gets to most people.

Stats are that one in fourteen people over the age of seventy experience some kind of cognitive decline. That goes up to one in six when we are talking about octogenarian.

I feel for him and his family

[LeatherTrumpet]

my dad had this

its not good

[UserSince2005]

Damn not Brucie, he was so good on strictly.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by UserSince2005

Damn not Brucie, he was so good on strictly.

But seriously I feel for him and his family at this time.

[Soldier Boy]

Originally Posted by Kate!

No, early onset dementia I heard.

Aphasia (which it was announced he was suffering from) is often an early sign of dementia as was the case here, so maybe you read that somewhere.

Its a very sad bit of news and a terrible diagnosis to have, but (as above) sadly not entirely unexpected given the news about his health in recent years.

[Oliver_W]

Maybe that's why he's been is so many garbage movies the past few years - he's been building a nest-egg "while he can", for his wife and offspring, and so that his existing funds aren't consumed by America's stupid healthcare system...

[Soldier Boy]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Maybe that's why he's been is so many garbage movies the past few years - he's been building a nest-egg "while he can", for his wife and offspring, and so that his existing funds aren't consumed by America's stupid healthcare system...

I don't think there's much danger of his funds being consumed, Bruce Willis is worth well over £200 million and he'll have extensive health insurance on top of that.

I imagine he wanted to keep working for as long as possible. If you look at his back catalogue, of course there are some great movies but he's always done a tonne of absolute garbage as well, multiple movies every year going way back into the 90's. Only maybe 10 - 15 of them are actually good movies .

[Alf]

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

I don't think there's much danger of his funds being consumed, Bruce Willis is worth well over £200 million and he'll have extensive health insurance on top of that.

I imagine he wanted to keep working for as long as possible. If you look at his back catalogue, of course there are some great movies but he's always done a tonne of absolute garbage as well, multiple movies every year going way back into the 90's. Only maybe 10 - 15 of them are actually good movies .

Good early morning to you Toy Soldier. I'd like to apologise to you for kicking off at you earlier and calling you names that I didn't really mean but said out of a moment of being in a bad mood.

You know we don't see eye to eye but I hope you also know that I don't hold anything against you and enjoy the challenges you bring me.

I think I have said before that your challenging of me keeps me sane.

I just wish you wouldn't make up falsehoods about me, I don't think I deserve that, I think I give you honesty, unless I'm being jokingly sarcastic.

[Alf]

Did you see that Liam?

I offered an olive branch and he logged off in my face.

There's gratitude for you.

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

I don't think there's much danger of his funds being consumed, Bruce Willis is worth well over £200 million and he'll have extensive health insurance on top of that.

I imagine he wanted to keep working for as long as possible. If you look at his back catalogue, of course there are some great movies but he's always done a tonne of absolute garbage as well, multiple movies every year going way back into the 90's. Only maybe 10 - 15 of them are actually good movies .

Fair. Maybe he just loves acting!

Thinking about it, the paycheck from some of the ... crapper productions would have been like nothing to him.

Good on him for putting his name to the productions of "up and coming" filmmakers!