Her reflections were tender and deeply moving. “I love getting to go over and see him,” Rumer shared. “I’m so grateful that I have a child that got to meet him because I don’t know if my sisters will have that.”
Rumer is a mother to two-year-old daughter Louetta Isley Thomas Willis, whom she shares with ex Derek Richard Thomas. Watching her daughter spend time with Bruce has become especially precious as his condition progresses.
Rumer acknowledged the difficulty of answering questions about how Bruce is really doing.
“People always ask me this question and I think it’s kind of a hard one to answer because the truth is that anybody with FTD is not doing great,” she said. “But he’s doing okay in terms of somebody who’s dealing with frontotemporal dementia.”
She also reflected on an unexpected tenderness that has emerged in her father’s personality.
“There’s a sweetness. He’s always been this, kind of, macho dude and now there’s just such a tenderness that maybe being Bruce Willis might not have allowed him in a certain way,” she said. “I’m so grateful that I get to go see him even though our time together is different now.”
Rumer also praised the blended family’s unity throughout the ordeal. “We don’t do it perfectly but we’re always striving to continue to create connection and find ways to be with each other and support each other through something that is kind of unprecedented,” she said.
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