Emma Heming Willis recently admitted that she’s still excited to celebrate the holidays with her ailing husband, Bruce Willis, and their children.
On Thursday, November 20, the 47-year-old British model and actress attended the End Well 2025 conference in Los Angeles where she chatted with PEOPLE magazine.
Emma talked about celebrating Christmas and what it feels like to enjoy special holidays with Bruce, who was initially diagnosed with aphasia and then frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in 2022.
She said: “It’s joyful. It’s just different. Bruce loved Christmas and we love celebrating it with him. It just looks different so we’ve kind of adapted to that.”
The Perfect stranger star admitted that the holidays can be “so hard” for the families of people living with dementia, but she lightheartedly added: “I think it’s important to put on Die Hard because it’s a Christmas movie.”
She went on to say, “You have to learn and adapt and make new memories and bring in the same traditions you had before.”
“Life goes on. It just goes on. Dementia is hard, but there is still joy in it. I think it’s important that we don’t paint such a negative picture around dementia. We still laugh. There is still joy. It just looks different,” said the mother of two.
It is pertinent to mention that Emma Heming Willis shares two children, Ray Willis (born 2012) and Evelyn Penn Willis (born 2014), with Bruce Willis.
