Tallulah Willis discusses her father's battle with dementia and mental health.

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Tallulah Willis discusses her father's battle with dementia and mental health.
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Tallulah Willis has opened up about her father Bruce Willis' evolving relationship and recent diagnosis of aphasia and frontotemporal dementia, an incurable neurological disease that can cause unexplained personality changes and apathy, as well as struggles with decision-making, speaking, and language comprehension. She reflects on her own struggles with anorexia nervosa and how her father's health might have helped her. Despite his condition, Bruce Willis still enjoys collecting vintage toy cars, coins, rocks, objects made of brass, and other knickknacks, and still recognizes his daughter.

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