- Bruce Willis’s diagnosis with a rare brain disease
has left millions worried for him.
People have been accusing his much younger wife, Emma,
of taking advantage of his illness.
There are even reports that Bruce’s will
was changed just days before his diagnosis,
leaving his daughters with Demi Moore with almost nothing.
Bruce and Demi always seemed like the perfect exes
but Bruce actually cut off contact with her for years
after marrying Emma.
- Took the higher road
and our children are much better for it.
- Now, Demi’s back in the picture.
- But I just knew that that’s where I was supposed to be.
- But Emma’s reportedly threatened
by their close relationship.
- I know how much you love my husband.
Just keep your space.
- Why would Emma be so worried
about having Demi around Bruce?
- Did you ever think you would get married?
- Not for a long time.
The day before I met my wife,
I didn’t wanna get married
and I met her and I was just
knocked out by her, you know.
I really fell in love right away.
I knew the night that I met her
that I was gonna marry her.
- What did your intuition
say to you about Bruce?
- Bruce and I met, were married
and pregnant in four months.
- Then you and Bruce Willis
were destined to be together.
- I guess so.
- On the outside,
Bruce and Demi seemed like
the perfect family.
- Why do you think he’s gonna be a good dad?
- Because he’s generous
and he’s warm and he wants it.
- When you’re responsible for a little baby,
it just completely changes you.
- Being a mother felt totally natural.
- Bruce Willis and Demi
have lived a fairytale life.
They’ve even managed to
raise three young daughters.
- But Bruce and Demi wanted different things,
and it was pulling them apart.
- Bruce Willis vows, the kids come first.
- This is never going to work.
If you’re off shooting a film,
what he meant was that
our life wouldn’t work
if I was engrossed in something
outside of our family.
- Demi describes Bruce as being, quote,
- I’m not gonna sit here and say
we don’t fight.
We are human.
We go up and down like all people.
I always maintained a
kind of emotional buffer,
like a moat around a castle,
so that I wouldn’t be dependent on him.
- Do you still like me?
- Yeah.
- Good.
- I just didn’t buy the “You’re the king”
kind of thing, which he thrived on.
- Hollywood power couple,
Bruce Willis and Demi Moore
have decided to end their 11-year marriage.
- Demi and Bruce swore that they wouldn’t
put anything ahead of their kids,
and they succeeded for a while,
but then Demi started dating Ashton Kutcher.
- When I met Ashton,
it almost felt like a do-over
like I could just go back in time
and experience what it was like
to be young with him.
- From the jump the media was brutal
calling Demi a cougar
who was having a midlife crisis,
but when Bruce married a
Victoria’s Secret model
who was 23 years younger than him,
the media embraced his perfect new family.
- For years,
Bruce Willis vowed he’d never marry again.
Then the movie star met
sizzling Emma Heming,
and she changed his mind and his life.
Bruce Willis and Emma Heming
welcome their first child.
- You look well-slept.
- Changing diapers like a champ.
- How is Bruce as a father?
- He’s a wonderful father.
- How is he as a husband?
- He’s great.
- But for Demi it wasn’t so easy.
- When I found myself
engaged to my soulmate
and expecting his child at 42,
I felt like the luckiest girl in the world.
Almost six months into my pregnancy,
right at the moment
when we were going to start telling everyone,
we went to the doctor’s office.
- And you said you will never forget
the look on the doctor’s face.
- You could see his dread
because it was unquestionable,
because there was no heartbeat.
The guilt that I felt
that it was clearly my fault
was just enormous.
- Demi couldn’t handle
that she couldn’t have another baby at age 42.
- I really lost sight of everything
that was right in front of me,
which is the family I had.
- You had always chosen us.
You would always put us first,
but when she wanted to have another baby
and then there was so much focus on that
it was like, “Oh, well, we’re not enough.”
- And Ashton was handling his grief
in a very different way.
- Ashton Kutcher caught cheating
the night before his and Demi’s
wedding anniversary.
- You got a Google alert?
- Yes.
- What did you say to him?
- I asked if it was true
and he admitted it right away.
I felt like I could barely take a breath.
- And that’s when the relapse happened?
- Yeah, so I opened that door to drinking
after almost 20 years.
I wanted to be something other than who I am.
- Demi tried to drown her pain
instead of facing it,
but just two months later
a leaked 911 call blew everything up.
- Is an ambulance on the way?
- Everyone else was
witnessing my body flailing.
My daughter terrified
that she was gonna see me die
right in front of her.
- I was there in the other room
with 911 panicking
and I took her to rehab on the plane,
which was the scariest thing
I’ve ever had to do in my life.
- As Demi refused to take
responsibility for herself,
Bruce and their daughters had to cut her off.
- Can you explain why you guys
weren’t talking to your mom for three years?
- I just knew that
I was scared and that she was unsafe.
It was like the sun went down
and, like, a monster came.
- You called going away to treatment camp.
- It was not the mom
that we had grown up with.
- I felt villainized by my family.
I was angry that my girls
weren’t showing me any compassion
and that Bruce refused to intercede.
- More kids?
- Oh, Mabel Ray is only six weeks old.
- Different from the last three?
The girls have cut off all contact with Demi.
- Demi was living her worst nightmare
putting her daughters through the same thing
her mom had done to her.
- Her mother and father
both battle alcoholism.
She’s 12 when her mother
first attempts suicide.
- I remember using my fingers,
the small fingers of a child
to dig the pills
my mother had tried to swallow
out of her mouth.
- And it wasn’t the last time.
- No, there was many, many times.
- You said your childhood.
- Was done.
Being a mom was the one thing I felt sure
I was truly successful at in life,
but how successful could I be
when not one of my children
would speak to me?
I knew I had a choice.
I could die alone or I could really ask
how did I get here
and have the courage to face the answers.
I really had to first do a lot of healing
and exploration through myself.
I was always just trying to keep going
and prove that it was okay that I was here,
that it was worth me being born
and there’s no way that
you can stop and be present
and really experience life
when you’re running in a way that’s of fear.
- Demi was finally the version of herself
that Bruce and their daughters saw all along.
- You said that Demi has
helped you to be a more caring,
loving individual.
What has she done for you?
- Being the kind of tough guy that I am,
you never wanna tell anyone
that you’re afraid of
what is happening in your life.
You’re never really in the moment,
and my wife has really helped me
to learn how to be in the moment.
- Demi’s family seemed stronger than ever
until a diagnosis no one saw coming.
- I have another 25 years of these
“Die Hard” films in me,
but it’s not quite time to pass the baton.
- One of Hollywood’s toughest heroes
is facing a battle for his own health now.
- It’s called the cruelest disease
you never heard of.
Bruce Willis has gone public
with his diagnosis
of frontotemporal dementia.
- But as Bruce’s family spoke out for him,
Emma was facing the kind of public criticism
she never had before.
- I just saw something about me
getting my five minutes,
which is great,
which means that you’re listening.
So I’m gonna take my five minutes
and I’m gonna turn it into 10.
I have started the morning by crying.
People always tell me that,
oh, like, “You’re so strong.
I don’t know how you do it.”
- “She’s such a drama queen.”
- “She’s starting to get annoying
with her victim attitude.”
- “When you marry an old man
decades older than you are
that’s what you sign up for.”
- There were even reports
that Bruce’s will had been changed
just days before his diagnosis,
but when Bruce and Demi
were spotted together again,
it contradicted the media’s story.
- Are Bruce and Demi back together?
- A source told “RadarOnline”,
- But fans have been wondering,
where’s Bruce’s current wife, Emma Heming?
- The exes are isolating
with their three kids in Idaho,
but Bruce’s wife, Emma,
is back in L.A. with their two kids.
- Bruce Willis’s wife, Emma Heming,
slams dumb rumor
about Demi Moore moving in.
- But Demi had been through it before
so she stepped up for Emma
and set the record straight.
- Bruce came and spent time with us,
and then his current wife
and their small daughters
joined a little bit later
when the kids were finished with school.
- Demi Moore is paying tribute
to Emma Heming Willis.
“We are mothers united, sisters bonded.
Emma is a beautiful mother
dedicated to her family.”
- Our family,
regardless of what the shape of it is
it’s important to keep together.
- Now Demi is there for Bruce
and their blended family
when they need her the most.
- We were both able to find a way to share,
and be a family in a different form.
- We had three gorgeous kids
that we still raise together.
- Rumer Willis announced
that she’s expecting a baby.
- Compared to raising children,
everything else in the world is just stupid.
It really puts it in great perspective.
- He was like,
“So I’d like for you to have a son
because I need some
male energy in this group.”
It’s a lot of women, obviously,
he has five daughters.
- Rumer Willis has welcomed a baby girl,
Louetta, making Bruce Willis and Demi Moore,
first-time grandparents.
- What’s your prayer for them and to them?
- My hope is that in understanding me,
that they would better understand themselves
and love themselves.
We all suffer and we all triumph,
and we all get to choose how we hold both.