Overview

• Emma Heming Willis describes The Unexpected Journey as a self-help guide rather than a memoir and plans to publish it on September 9, 2025.
• The book traces her caregiving journey from Bruce Willis’s aphasia diagnosis in March 2022 through his frontotemporal dementia announcement in February 2023.
• It reveals how directors scaled back Willis’s dialogue and a friend fed him lines through an earpiece on films including Assassin and the Detective Knight series.
• Willis’s natural slow speech pattern, rooted in a childhood stutter, helped conceal early signs of his cognitive decline on screen.
• Heming Willis aims to provide the guidance she lacked at the outset of her husband’s illness and to raise awareness of frontotemporal dementia.