Bruce Willis showed signs of decline years before his aphasia diagnosis – but another condition he had since childhood kept wife Emma Heming Willis’ concerns at bay.
It is marked by a gradual, progressive decline in behaviour, language and occupational functioning.
“For Bruce, it started with language,” Heming Willis told American Town and Country magazine in an interview published this week. But those early changes in the Emmy winner’s speech did not initially alarm her, she said, as he struggled with a “severe stutter” well into his teenage years.