Tallulah Willis, the daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, wrote an essay for Vogue detailing the family's reaction to Bruce's condition.
), she called the ongoing period for the family “the beginning of grief,” and she noted that she and the rest of the family noticed that something wasn’t right with Willis “for a long time,” but that it had been chalked up to Willis’ hearing damage that he suffered throughout his long career in the world of action films.“I’ve known that something was wrong for a long time,” Tallulah said.
“Later that unresponsiveness broadened, and I sometimes took it personally,” said Tallulah. “He had had two babies with my stepmother, Emma Heming Willis, and I thought he’d lost interest in me. Though this couldn’t have been further from the truth, my adolescent brain tortured itself with some faulty math: I’m not beautiful enough for my mother, I’m not interesting enough for my father.”
“I admit that I have met Bruce’s decline in recent years with a share of avoidance and denial that I’m not proud of [but] the truth is that I was too sick myself to handle it,” Willis said. “I remember a moment when it hit me painfully: I was at a wedding… and the bride’s father made a moving speech. Suddenly I realized that I would never get that moment, my dad speaking about me in adulthood at my wedding. It was devastating.
“Every time I go to my dad’s house, I take tons of photos searching for treasure in stuff that I never used to pay much attention to,” said Willis. “I have every voicemail from him saved on a hard drive. I find that I’m trying to document, to build a record for the day when he isn’t there to remind me of him and of us. He still knows who I am and lights up when I enter the room.”
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