Inside Bruce Willis’ Family Support System: How Wife Emma, His Daughters and Ex Demi Moore Make It Work

Bruce Willis’ wife Emma, their girls Mabel and Evelyn, and daughters Rumer, Scout and Tallulah with ex Demi Moore have cared for the retired actor as a unit in the wake of his dementia diagnosis

Bruce Willis remains supported by an all-star cast.

After admittedly being “clickbaited” by an article about her own family, his wife Emma HemingWillis recently pushed back against the purported thesis of the story, that there was “no more joy” in her husband of almost 15 years.

“Stop scaring people into thinking that, once they get a diagnosis of some kind of neurocognitive disease that that’s it, it’s over, let’s pack it up,” she said in a March 3 Instagram video. Rather, Emma continued, “It’s the complete opposite of that.”

It’s been almost two years since Bruce’s family—Emma and daughters Mabel, 11, and Evelyn, 9, as well as ex-wife Demi Moore and their daughters together, Rumer, 35, Scout, 32, and Tallulah, 30—collectively announced on social media that he was stepping away from his four-decade-plus acting career after being diagnosed with aphasia, a condition that affects language comprehension and expression. The unfortunate update that he was suffering from frontotemporal dementia followed in February 2023.

So, to be sure, there have been some bad days for Bruce and “the ladies of Willis/Moore,” as the women in his life signed one of their joint posts. But, as Emma pointed out earlier this month, this latest chapter of their lives has contained multitudes.

Instagram / Emma Heming Willis

The more than 120 movies Bruce made after his star-making turn on the 1980s TV drama Moonlighting might suggest that he always lived to work, but the Die Hard figured out long ago that off-camera was where the action is.

“My family and friends are the most significant part of my life, and no film script will ever change that,” he told Everything Zoomer in June 2013. “I feel very relaxed. I don’t have much to get upset about in life. I sometimes worry about my daughters but I try to tell them how to avoid the bad guys out there. Your kids need your love and attention and being able to devote myself to them is very fulfilling.

“As I get older, spending time with my daughters makes things much easier. You learn to put your ego aside.”

Which sounds about right for a guy who was wearing matching striped pajamas and hunkering down with his ex-wife (and daughter Scout) during the social-distancing era of 2020, almost 20 years after he and Demi finalized their divorce…