American actor Bruce Willis, who stopped acting a year ago for health reasons, has now been diagnosed with dementia, his family revealed Thursday.
The information was shared in a statement on the page of the North American Association of Frontotemporal Degeneration, one of the types of dementia that Bruce Willis, 67, was diagnosed with.
In March 2022, the actor’s family announced that he would be leaving acting following a diagnosis of aphasia, which affects speech and language.
A year later, they explain that the state of health has evolved towards this type of dementia, which has no treatment or cure and affects the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain.
“From the first symptoms, the average life expectancy is between seven and 13 years,” the statement read.
Bruce Willis is 67 years old and his film career began in the 1980s, discreetly and in small roles, specifically in the film “The Verdict” (1980), by Sidney Lumet, wrote Variety magazine.
The true beginning of the career of the actor, born in Germany and raised in the United States, occurred with the television series “Model and Detective”, between 1985 and 1989, together with the actress Cybill Shepherd, and in “Die Hard – Assault on the Spider -Heavens”, the first in a popular series of action films.
Bruce Willis also did comedy, specifically in “Look who’s talking” (1989) and “Death looks so good on you” (1992), and his participation in “The Bonfire of the Vanities” (1990), by Brian de Palma, ” Pulp Fiction” (1994), by Quentin Tarantino and in which he co-stars with the Portuguese actress Maria de Medeiros, and in “The Sixth Sense” (1999) and “The Protected” (2000), both by M. Night Shyamalan.
Source: TSF
