Being a grandfather is special for Bruce Willis!
On Wednesday, the Hard to kill actor’s eldest daughter, 35 years old Rumer Willisgave an update on the star amid your diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) — and his latest role as grandfather to his 1-year-old daughter, Louetta.
“He’s so good,” Rumer told Hoda Kotb during an interview with Today. “I actually got to see him a little bit before I left (for New York). And Lou is just starting to walk a little bit, and she was walking up to him, and it was so cute.”
Rumer shared that interacting with her daughter brings out a sweet spot in Bruce.
“It’s so good because I feel like my dad is like — he’s a girl’s dad, through and through. It almost unlocks this kid, father of a girl kind of thing.
In addition to Rumer, Bruce and his ex-wife Demi Moore are parents to Scout32 and Tallulah30. The pulp Fiction the star also shares daughters, Mabel, 12, and Evelyn, 9, with his wife, Emma Heming.
Rumer took to social media in April to celebrate her daughter’s first birthday and gave his followers a look into his relationship with his father. Along with photos of Louetta with other family members, there was a beautiful photo of her being held by her grandfather as he smiled.
Louetta’s name (Louetta Isley Thomas Willis), according to her mother, is inspired by some of Bruce’s favorite things.
“Her name is a mix of things I love,” Rumer shared during an Instagram Q&A last year. “I always loved the name Lou, so I thought of it for both a boy and a girl, but when we discovered she was a girl, we came up with Louetta.”
She added of her and Derek Richard Thomas’ girls name: “We wanted to give her options and me and my dad’s favorite singers are Lou = Louis Armstrong, Etta = Etta James, Isley = Isley Brother(s).”
In 2023, Bruce’s family revealed he had been diagnosed with FTDwhich is a condition linked to dementia that mainly affects the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain and affects a person’s personality, behavior and language, according to Mayo clinic. The announcement came a year after his family said he was diagnosed with aphasia.
Rumer has spoken openly about her family’s decision to continue to speak publicly about Bruce’s life with the disease.
She said in Today, “Our vulnerability and transparency as a family about what he’s going through is so important to me because if this can have any impact on another family who is struggling in some way with something like this, or bring more attention to the disease in hopes of finding a healing or anything that can serve anyone else, I think it’s very important.”
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