Bruce Willis' wife Emma explains his move into second home
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The wife of Bruce Willis has shared her emotional decision to relocate the beloved actor to a second residence due to his ongoing struggle with frontotemporal dementia.

“It was the hardest thing,” Emma Heming Willis, 47, told People in an interview published Wednesday.

“We have two young children, and ensuring they had a home environment that catered to their needs was crucial, while also providing Bruce a space that met his,” she elaborated. “This way, the kids can enjoy playdates and sleepovers without the worry of having to tiptoe around.”

“Everything just feels a lot calmer, more at ease now,” Emma added.

Bruce and Emma, a former model, married in 2009 and have since welcomed daughters Mabel, 13, and Evelyn, 11.

However, their lives took a devastating turn 13 years into their marriage when the “Die Hard” actor, now 70, was diagnosed with aphasia, a language disorder, in 2022, which was followed by a diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) the next year.

While Bruce’s family – including ex-wife Demi Moore, 62, and daughters Rumer, 37, Scout, 34, and Tallulah, 31 – has stepped up to support the now-retired actor due to his health, Emma has become his most dedicated caregiver.

Moving the “Pulp Fiction” star into a second home, Emma explained, has made a world of difference for both Bruce and his family.

“Dementia plays out differently in everyone’s home, and you have to do what’s right for your family dynamic and what’s right for your person,” she told People.

“It’s heartbreaking to me,” the “Unbreakable” star’s wife continued. “But this is how we were able to support our whole family, and it has opened up Bruce’s world.”

Additionally, Emma explained that moving Bruce to a second home has been “helpful” not just for their relationship as husband and wife but also for Bruce’s father-daughter relationships with Mabel and Evelyn.

“I get to go back to being Bruce’s wife and the kids can be kids and there’s beauty in that and I’m so grateful for that,” she told the outlet.

“I just get to be with him in these moments, and that is because of this setup we have,” Emma concluded.

Emma first revealed that she had moved Bruce to a second home during a sit-down ABC interview with Diane Sawyer, which aired last week.

“It was one of the hardest decisions that I’ve had to make so far,” she said during the “Emma and Bruce Willis: The Unexpected Journey” special. “But I knew, first and foremost, Bruce would want that for our daughters.”

“You know, he would want them to be in a home that was more tailored to their needs, not his needs,” she added at the time.

However, Emma quickly faced backlash for the decision to move the “Glass” star into a nearby home so he could get 24-hour care.

She then took to social media during the controversy to fire back at her “loud” critics and their “noisy” concerns.

“What I knew was that by sharing some of our intimate information that we would see these two camps,” Emma charged in an Instagram video on Friday. “It would be people with an opinion versus people with an actual experience.”

“That is what caregivers are up against,” she added. “Judgement from others and criticism from others.”

Moore, meanwhile, came to Emma’s defense during Tuesday’s episode of “The Oprah Podcast” with host Oprah Winfrey.

“There is no road map for how to deal with this,” Moore told Winfrey while discussing Emma’s upcoming new book, “The Unexpected Journey: Finding Strength, Hope and Yourself on the Caregiving Path.”

“So much fell on Emma to really figure this whole thing out, and the most beautiful thing, and she talks about this in the book, was recognizing the importance for caregivers that they have to take care of themselves,” the “Substance” star continued. “And if they don’t put that time into making sure that they’re okay, then they can’t show up for anyone else.”

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