He will never play in a movie once more. Bruce Willis, 67, announced that he would end his career in the spring of 2022 when he suffered from aphasia, a language disorder caused by brain damage.
A disease that has since progressed. According to a recent diagnosis, the actor’s relatives announced via a press release that he suffered from “frontotemporal dementia”.
It is an incurable neurodegenerative disease related to Alzheimer’s. People with FTD may experience memory problems, behavioral changes, or difficulty speaking or moving.
Frontotemporal dementia causes the progressive death of neurons in the frontal and temporal part of the brain. It generally affects people aged 50 to 65 and develops gradually and irreversibly, the Brain Institute explained to TF1 Info.
FTD affects 6,000 people in France, both men and women, and accounts for around 10% of dementia cases.
