Since 2022, Bruce Willis has been grappling with his health, including an aphasia diagnosis and frontotemporal dementia.

Bruce Willis’ family revealed a little over a year ago that he’d been diagnosed with a condition called frontotemporal dementia. The symptoms of the illness prompted him to retire from acting in 2022.

Willis’ illness, also known as FTD, is a type of degenerative condition that primarily affects communication and behavior rather than memory, like other types of dementia. One of the actor’s early symptoms of the illness was aphasia, when a person struggles to speak, write and understand other people.

As a family, we wanted to take this opportunity to thank you all for the outpouring of love and compassion for Bruce over the past ten months. Your generosity of spirit has been overwhelming, and we are tremendously grateful for it. For your kindness, and because we know you love Bruce as much as we do, we wanted to give you an update.