Demi Moore defended Emma Heming, current wife of her ex, Bruce Willis, after the model was criticized for the way she has handled the care of the ‘Die Hard’ actor, who suffers from frontotemporal dementia.
During an interview with Oprah Winfrey, the actress noted that she feels “a lot of compassion” for Heming, who has cared for Willis since his diagnosis in 2022.
“Emma had to work very hard to understand it all. And the beautiful thing, and she mentions it in the book, was recognizing the importance of caregivers taking care of themselves. If they don’t spend time making sure they’re doing well, they can’t help anyone else,” Moore said on an episode of ‘The Oprah Podcast.’
Heming faced criticism when she shared in an interview with U.S. journalist Diane Sawyer that she had to make the difficult decision to move Willis to a separate house where he lives with professional caregivers.
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The model has been open about the process of caring for her husband and even wrote a book about it, titled ‘The Unexpected Journey: Finding Strength, Hope and Yourself on the Caregiving Path’, which will be released on September 9.
“I have tremendous sympathy for Emma, being a young woman (…) No one could have foreseen the outcome of this situation, and I think she’s done a masterful job. She has dedicated herself completely to forging the right path,” Moore told Winfrey.
‘The Substance’ actress also talked about how hard it was to see her ex-husband, to whom she was married from 1987 to 2000, go through an illness like the one she is suffering from.
“It’s hard to see someone who was so vibrant, strong and so driven switch to this other part,” he noted.
In March 2022, the 70-year-old actor’s family announced that Willis had been diagnosed with aphasia, but a year later Heming revealed that the actor suffered from frontotemporal dementia, a group of disorders that progressively affect the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain causing changes in behavior, language and executive functions, reported Agencia EFE.
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