Ronald Reagan's daughter, actress Patti Davis, offered comfort and advice to Bruce Willis' family after the announcement of the actor's frontotemporal dementia (FTD) diagnosis.
It read,"Our family wanted to start by expressing our deepest gratitude for the incredible outpouring of love, support and wonderful stories we have all received since sharing Bruce’s original diagnosis. In the spirit of that, we wanted to give you an update about our beloved husband, father and friend since we now have a deeper understanding of what he is experiencing.
"Feeling emotionally tired and a bit overwhelmed, yet also very in awe of the love so many people have for my papa," she wrote alongside a photo of herself. Her sisters, Rumer and Tallulah, both of whom are also from Willis' marriage to actress Demi Moore, echoed similar sentiments in the comments of her post."Second this Scouter," Tallulah wrote."Feeling the abundant love for our guy and our family.
Rumer added,"I third this Scouter and [Tallulah] feeling so deeply grateful and in awe of the love for us and our sweet Daddio." Davis, who started the support group Beyond Alzheimer’s for caregivers and families, offered advice not only for the Willis family but those around them.’s family, as they go down this unpredictable and heartbreaking road, is for those around them to know that simply being there is often all you can do," she wrote."There is no sidestepping the grief, the pain, the helplessness. There is just, maybe, a human wall of comfort to lean on.
She concluded by thanking the Willis family for their willingness to be open about the diagnosis, saying that"there are others whom the Willis family will never meet, other families who have been invaded by this cruel disease, who today feel a little less lonely because of the decision to announce a diagnosis that rips your soul apart."
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