SICK BRUCE WILLIS. Bruce Willis is ending his career because he suffers from aphasia, a language disorder, revealed his family this Wednesday, March 30, 2022. His state of health has been in decline since 2020.
[Mis à jour le 30 mars 2022 à 10h43] Bruce Willis is ending his acting career, his family learned this Wednesday, March 30, 2022. The 67-year-old American star is ill and suffers from aphasia, a language disorder “which affects his cognitive abilities. Therefore, and with great consideration, Bruce leaves the career that is so close to his heart.” Few details on the state of health of the actor have been shared by his relatives. However, according to the Los Angeles TimesHollywood has been worried about his health for several years.
It seems that Bruce Willis has been ill for some time. The Los Angeles Time obtained a note written in 2020 by the director of the film Race against death, Mike Burns, in which he asked the writers to drastically reduce the role of Bruce Willis and shorten his dialogues. If the reason for this decision has not been specified, this is consistent with the aphasia from which the actor suffers, since this disease causes a language disorder. The outlet also reports that several people who worked with the American star were concerned about his decline in recent years. According to them, the actor did not seem aware of everything that could be happening around him and seemed to have trouble remembering his lines.
The announcement of Bruce Willis’ illness and the end of his acting career was devastating for his fans. Especially since the actor had recently appeared on social networks and seemed in perfect health. Demi Moore had indeed posted a photo with her ex-husband for her birthday on March 20, just ten days before her family announced her illness (aphasia) and her retirement on social networks. However, the comedian from Die Hard and Pulp Fiction had not appeared on the red carpets since October 11, 2019.
Aphasia, kezako? It is a communication disorder. This can manifest itself both in expression, but also in understanding, whether oral or written. As a result, Bruce Willis may have already seen his oral language, his reading, his gestures or his writing be disturbed. For an actor, as for anyone, aphasia is a real handicap in everyday life. Orally, according to the Service de neuropsychologie et de neuro-réhabilitation de Lausanne, aphasia can be characterized by the frequent use of one word by another, such as talking about “glasses” instead of “watch”, or its opposite, we will speak of hot to evoke cold. A partial distortion of words, even total in the most serious cases, and the production of sentences in telegraphic style are also a consequence of aphasia.
How do you become aphasic? At the origin of this evil, there is “a lesion of the specific areas of language, which are located in the brain”. In short, summarizes the CHUV, “anyone suffering from brain damage, with some acquisition of language, can become aphasic”. The origin of the lesion can be explained by a vascular accident, an injury or a pathological foreign mass, such as a tumour.
Can aphasia be cured? Unfortunately, this depends on several factors. The actor Bruce Willis will thus not be able to recover if the lesion at the origin of his aphasia is too extensive. Other factors to take into account: the age of the patient, but also the cause of the lesion or the presence or absence of associated disorders.
Bruce Willis’ family did not elaborate on what caused the actor’s aphasia. Nevertheless, it is known that aphasia is often the result of a sudden health accident, such as a stroke (cerebrovascular accident), head trauma or a degenerative disease such as Alzheimer’s. It is not known, for the time being, what caused this deterioration in the state of health of the american star of 67 years.
Bruce Willis is an American actor born on March 19, 1955. He is known for having played the first role in the Die Hard action film saga, but also in many films of the 1990s and 2000s: Pulp Fiction, The Fifth Element , Armageddon, Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Expendables or The Army of the Twelve Monkeys.
Walter Bruce Willison, better known as Bruce Willis, was born on March 19, 1955 on the military base of Idar-Oberstein in Germany. Her father, David Willison, is an American soldier who married a German, Marlene Willison. He has two brothers and a sister. It happens to United States at the age of 2 years. After working as a security guard and as a bartender, he decided to turn to acting. He studied drama at Montclair State University.
In the early 1980s, he was new York, dividing his time between the theater and his jobs in bars and studying at the Actors Studio. It was a 1986 that Bruce Willis became famous with the television series Moonlight. Two years later, he achieved star status by filming the first part of the Die Hard series: crystal trap. He then appeared in films with limited success such as deadly thoughts (1991), Hudson Hawk gentleman burglar (1991) or Death suits you so well (1992).
In 1994, the career of Bruce Willis rebounds thanks to his role in pulp Fiction (1994). From then on, he had a string of successes, often posing as the savior of the world (The Army of the Twelve Monkeys in 1995, The fifth Element in 1997 or even Armageddon in 1998). At the end of the decade, the actor explored the registers of the supernatural (Sixth Sense in 1999, Unbreakable in 2000) then in the 2000s, we see him in war films (Mission Escape in 2002) and action (SinCity in 2005, Hostage in 2005, Expendables: Special Unit in 2010 alongside other prestigious names such as Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Statham, mickey rourke or Dolph Lundgren).
The year 2013 is particularly prolific for the actor who is showing no less than six films of different genres: No Exit next to Henry Cavill, Moonrise Kingdom by Wes Anderson, Las Vegas: Memoirs of a Gamblerbut especially the muscular blockbuster Expendables 2the science fiction film Looper and finally Fire With Fire, revenge by fire.
The following year, he reduced his quota by half and distinguished himself in a new part of the Die Hard saga: Beautiful day to dieweighed down by criticism, and in Red 2the sequel to the adventures of CIA retirees, without forgetting his umpteenth action film GI Joe: Conspiracy. The year 2014 will be rich for Willis who will participate in the sequel to Sin City: I Killed For Her. And if it was planned to see him again on the sets ofExpandables 3 alongside Sylvester Stallone, it will ultimately be nothing following a dispute over his stamp. Since then, the star will have made appearances in several films including Glass in 2019 and made her first steps in the theater. In 2022, his family announced that he was ending his acting career: he was ill and suffered from aphasia, a language disorder.
Bruce Willis has been married twice in his life. From 1987 to 2000, he lived a highly publicized love affair with American actress Demi Moore. From their union, which lasted 13 years, three daughters were born: Rumer Gleen in 1988, Scout LaRue in 1991 and Tallulah Belle in 1994. After being briefly engaged to Brooke Burns, we learned in 2009 that the American actor from Die Hard married Emma Heming. This model, who is 23 years younger than him, gave birth to the actor’s last two children: Mabel Ray in 2012 and Evelyn Penn in 2014. He never had a son.