Bruce Willis’ wife Emma Heming Willis has shared a heartbreaking update with her followers as she admitted she was feeling unwell and ‘wanted her mommy’
Shaurya Shaurya and Angelica Cheyenne
21:44, 17 Mar 2025
Bruce Willis’ wife Emma Heming Willis opened up to her Instagram followers about a recent bout of illness as well as the call for aid she received regarding a family grappling with young-onset Alzheimer’s. “So I’m sick I have a cold. I want my mommy,” Emma began her Instagram video before diving into the heart of the matter. A well-regarded doctor had reached out informing her about a family facing Alzheimer’s with three children in need of support.
“I received a call from a very prominent doctor the other day letting me know that he has a family who’s just been diagnosed with young-onset Alzheimer’s and they have three children…and that he needs all of my resources and contacts,” she shared during her heartfelt post.
Though initially taken aback Emma soon realised she could lend a significant hand. “I have the contacts and nothing makes me happier than to be able to be of service and to support the next caregiver which I happily passed on,” she explained to her followers, reports the Mirror US. For the latest TV and showbiz gossip sign up to our newsletter.
Emma, while eager to help the particular family in question, spoke candidly about what she sees as a significant gap in healthcare support systems. “The thing that just boggles my mind is how do our doctors not already have a Rolodex of ways to support caregivers,” she said.
In her passionate message Emma spoke about her eagerness to delve deeper into assisting caregivers, which is a cause close to her heart. “So that is something I can’t wait to dig in to…it’s just is so upsetting to me when I receive messages from families that have just been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia or some type of dementia and they’re asking me for my resources,” Emma continued on Instagram.
She concluded by acknowledging the challenges of supporting those reaching out for help with Alzheimer’s and dementia resources. “I’m not even in the same state as them, same city,” Emma said.
“Doctors really need to have a roadmap of just some support,” Emma added. “Which is exactly why I wrote my book because I was handed a pamphlet. I was not given a resource and we need to put an end to that.” In 2022 Emma’s husband, Hollywood icon Bruce Willis, was diagnosed with aphasia but since then the Hollywood star’s condition has advanced to frontotemporal dementia.