Overview
- In recent days, several outlets including the Chicago Tribune have reported that Willis can no longer speak, read or walk as his frontotemporal dementia advances
- Willis’s family issued a public statement in April 2025 saying his condition remained stable despite its progressive nature
- No official update has confirmed the specific declines cited by the media since the April statement by Emma Heming Willis, Demi Moore and the actor’s children
- Frontotemporal dementia is a rare, early-onset disease that progressively impairs language, behavior and motor skills and differs from Alzheimer’s
- Willis retired from public life after his aphasia diagnosis in 2022 and his family continues to balance raising awareness of the disease with protecting his privacy