📚 What We Learned From Emma Heming Willis’s New Memoir (AARP Article)

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FROM THE ARTICLE.

10 Things We Learned From Emma Heming Willis’s New Memoir.

Bruce Willis’s wife opens up about his frontotemporal dementia diagnosis and how she stays strong as his caregiver in ‘The Unexpected Journey’.

By Christina Ianzito, AARP. Published September 09, 2025.

When the model and entrepreneur Emma Heming married Bruce Willis in 2009, she could never have predicted that less than 15 years later, he’d be diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), an incurable brain disease that would lead to his slow cognitive decline.

In her new book, The Unexpected Journey: Finding Strength, Hope, and Yourself on the Caregiving Path, Heming Willis, 47, recounts her experience — in surprisingly frank terms — as her husband’s care partner (a term she prefers to “caregiver”). She tells how her relationship with Bruce, who’s now 70, unfolded, what it was like to receive the devastating diagnosis and all that she learned in its challenging aftermath — when she nearly lost herself in a stew of guilt, grief and loneliness while trying to maintain some sense of normalcy for the couple’s two young daughters: Mabel, 13, and Evelyn, 11.

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