Overview

• In an ABC News special with Diane Sawyer and on Good Morning America, she said his brain is failing and his ability to communicate is steadily diminishing, though he remains physically mobile.
• She identified loss of language as the dominant symptom and said the family has learned alternative ways to connect.
• She described brief, unpredictable flashes of his former personality that lift the family before fading quickly.
• She announced The Unexpected Journey, a caregiving memoir set for publication on September 9, after initially feeling unsupported following the diagnosis.
• UCSF neurologist Bruce Miller explained that FTD is progressive, often misdiagnosed, and can limit patients' insight, as coverage also recapped the 2022 aphasia disclosure and the 2023 FTD diagnosis that preceded Willis's retirement from acting.