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    Emma Heming Willis says Bruce Willis and their family are "thriving" after he moved into a "second home"

    The Die Hard actor - whose family revealed he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia in 2023 - has been moved into a new home, and his 47-year-old wife and caregiver has opened up on what has been "one of the hardest decisions" during his health struggle.


    She told the Conversations With Cam podcast: "It did not come easy.

    "Caregivers are faced with really hard decisions and we have to do what is the best for our family, what's the safest for our person."

    Emily wanted to do what was best for Bruce, as well as their daughters Mabel Ray, 15, and Evelyn Penn, 11.

    She added: "Bruce wouldn't want his two young daughters to be clouded by his disease. I know that.

    "They weren't having sleepovers, play dates. We weren't inviting people over ... it was a really hard time.

    "The decision didn't come lightly, but it was the right one for our family. Our children are thriving, and so is Bruce, and that is the most important."

    She revealed despite moving the 70-year-old Hollywood star into a new home - which takes care of his "every need" at any hour of the day - the family still see him "all the time".

    She said: "We are over there all the time. It is our second home, and it's a place where we make memories and that house supports Bruce's every need, 24/7 and our other home, where our kids are, now they're supported, now their needs are met and that's worked so well for us."

    The model and influencer previously revealed how Bruce getting carers supporting him at all hours has allowed her to go back to just being his wife.

    She told The Sunday Times newspaper: "Among the sadness and discomfort, it was the right move - for him, for our girls, for me. Ultimately, I could get back to being his wife. And that's such a gift."

    It has also given Bruce more freedom to reconnect with friends and family.

    She explained: "It's made such a difference for more friends and family to have their own experience with him without it being my home, without me hovering, or my anxiety of how to manage the guest and their expectations, and then have to see their reactions - their sadness at what is."

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