Bruce Willis was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia earlier in 2023, and his former collaborator, "Moonlighting" creator Glenn gordon Caron, has given health updates.
Speaking with the New York Post, Gordon Caron mentioned he tries to meet with Willis once a month.
“I’m not always quite that good but I try and I do talk to him and his wife [Emma Heming Willis] and I have a casual relationship with his three older children,” he told the publication. “I have tried very hard to stay in his life.”
“The thing that makes [his disease] so mind-blowing is [that] if you’ve ever spent time with Bruce Willis, there is no one who had any more joie de vivre [joy of living] than he,” he said. “He loved life and… just adored waking up every morning and trying to live life to its fullest.”
Gordon Caron explained the disease has changed how Willis communicates and it’s as if “he now sees life through a screen door.”
“My sense is the first one to three minutes he knows who I am,” he said. “He’s not totally verbal; he used to be a voracious reader – he didn’t want anyone to know that – and he’s not reading now. All those language skills are no longer available to him, and yet he’s still Bruce.”