Bruce Willis’ daughter Tallulah knew ‘something was wrong for a long time’ before actor's battle with dementia

Bruce Willis’ daughter Tallulah is opening up about how her father’s battle with frontotemporal dementia has deeply impacted her and the family. 

Tallulah, 29, said she could sense something was off about the Hollywood actor before he was first diagnosed with aphasia in March 2022.

"I’ve known that something was wrong for a long time," Tallulah admitted in an article she wrote for Vogue.

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"It started out with a kind of vague unresponsiveness… Later that unresponsiveness broadened, and I sometimes took it personally."

After Bruce, 68, had two babies with Emma Heming Willis, Tallulah confessed she started to feel isolated from her father and figured he’d "lost interest" in her.

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"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."

The "Die Hard" actor’s daughter continued to say she would avoid Bruce due to these thoughts and said she’s "not proud" of her behavior toward her father.

Tallulah noted she was fighting her own health battle simultaneously.

"For the last four years, I have suffered from anorexia nervosa, which I’ve been reluctant to talk about because, after getting sober at age 20, restricting food has felt like the last vice that I got to hold on to," she shared.

While Tallulah suffered from anorexia nervosa, she also battled an ADHD diagnosis and body dysmorphia. 

As her father’s health steadily declined, Tallulah said Bruce was "quietly struggling" while she was wrapped up in her own health issues.

She reflected on the moment the Hollywood actor’s health battle hit her "painfully."

In the summer of 2021, Tallulah attended a wedding at Martha’s Vineyard 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," she noted.

Shortly after that realization, Tallulah said she had to step away from the dinner table and "wept in the bushes."

While Tallulah focuses on her own recovery, she’s also working on her relationship with the "Armageddon" actor.

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"I can bring him an energy that’s bright and sunny, no matter where I’ve been," she remarked. 

"In the past I was so afraid of being destroyed by sadness, but finally I feel that I can show up and be relied upon. I can savor that time, hold my dad’s hand, and feel that it’s wonderful," Tallulah added.

"I know that trials are looming, that this is the beginning of grief, but that whole thing about loving yourself before you can love somebody else – it’s real."

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Tallulah is the youngest daughter of Bruce and his ex-wife Demi Moore. The pair share two other children, Rumer and Scout.

Bruce has largely stayed out of the spotlight since it was revealed that he was retiring from acting last March.

Heming Willis, Moore and their daughters announced in a joint statement that Bruce would be retiring from acting after being diagnosed with aphasia, a disorder that affects a person's ability to express and understand written and verbal language.

Japan’s southern islands prepare for Tropical Storm Mawar

A weakened Tropical Storm Mawar headed toward Japan's southern archipelago of Okinawa on Thursday, leading businesses and the airport to close and fishermen to batten down their boats in preparation.

Many residents in the prefectural capital of Naha on the main Okinawan island, where about 20,000 U.S. forces are based, appeared unworried even as they took precautions.

Mawar, formerly a typhoon but now packing winds of up to 66 miles per hour, was around Miyako, one of Okinawa’s remote islands, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The storm could approach Okinawa’s main island on Friday and bring powerful rainstorms to the region, it said.

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A 76-year-old fisherman, Tatsunori Yamashiro, said he wasn't too worried by the weakening storm.

"All I can do now is to wait," he said, sitting in his fishing boat, which he'd securely tied to a port facility. He said Mawar could have caused damage if it hit Okinawa when it was a typhoon. "It’s now weakening, and because the water temperature around Okinawa is not very high, it will continue to get smaller.

Mawar largely skirted Taiwan and the Philippines after tearing across Guam last week. It passed by Taiwan on Tuesday with sustained winds of 96 mph and gusts of up to 118 mph, sending high waves crashing on the island's east coast.

In the Philippines, authorities said heavy rains were expected to continue in the country's north through at least Thursday and warned of flooding, possible landslides and gale-force winds before the typhoon exits the country's area of responsibility.

Another fisherman in Okinawa, Ryo Niinuma, 27, said he tied up his boat and cushioned its sides so that it wouldn’t get bumped by boats next to it.

"We are used to typhoons," he said. "This one seems to be a bit early this year, but we’ve had bigger ones in the past."

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People on Okinawa had been preparing for the approaching typhoon when a warning siren awoke them Wednesday to alert them to a North Korean rocket launch. Officials urged people to stay indoors or take shelter underground in case of falling debris.

The rocket failed and did not come anywhere near Japan, but residents already anxious about the typhoon said it added to their stress.

Japan had deployed a number of PAC-3 land-to-air interceptors on southern islands ahead of the launch, but some of them were kept on base instead of being set up at intended locations due to safety precautions ahead of the typhoon.

The U.S. military, which has troops stationed at multiple facilities on Okinawa, will take preparatory action as the storm draws closer, depending upon need, said Capt. Brett Dornhege-Lazaroff, spokesman for the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Force on Okinawa.

"Our installations are tracking the storm closely," he said.

Mawar lashed Guam last week, becoming the strongest typhoon to hit the U.S. Pacific territory in more than two decades, flipping cars, tearing off roofs and knocking out power.

In the Philippines, more than 8,000 people had been evacuated from flood- and landslide-prone communities to emergency shelters or relatives' houses but many returned home on Wednesday as the weather started to clear. No major damage was reported.