RUMER Willis has praised her dad Bruce in a rare public comment amid his Dementia battle.
Following in her much loved father’s footsteps, Rumer is also becoming an action hero.
Bruce Willis had his first three children in the late 80s and 90s, with actress and ex-wife, Demi Moore.
The couple split in the late 90s and Bruce went on to have two more children with model Emma Heming who he married in March 2009.
The five girls, along with Demi and Emma, released a joint statement in March 2022 sharing that Bruce had been diagnosed with aphasia and would retire from acting.
Aphasia is a medical condition resulting in the inability to understand words and communicate clearly, aphasia typically occurs after a stroke or head injury.
Then, 10 months later, another statement was shared which revealed that he received a more specific diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
FTD is “an umbrella term for a group of brain diseases that mainly affect the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain”, according to the Mayo Clinic.
The site states: “These areas of the brain are associated with personality, behavior, and language.”
Born August 16, 1988, in Kentucky, Rumer is the first daughter of Demi and Bruce.
She made her film debut in Now And Then (1995), acting alongside her mother, and has also appeared in three films with her father – The Whole Nine Years (2000), Hostage (2005), and Air Strike (2018).
In 2015 she made her Broadway debut in the musical Chicago and also won season 20 of Dancing with the Stars.
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She also starred in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood as actress Joanna Pettet.
In her new movie, out in theatres now, Rumer is playing a widow on the warpath in filmmaker Johnny Remo’s Trail of Vengeance.
And she has praised her father’s career as part of the reason for her own desire to jump into the genre.
In a recent interview she said: “My dad is such an action man.”
She added: “My mom’s done her fair share [of action] as well.”
Mom Demi starred in GI Jane and Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle.
Speaking to People magazine, mom-of-one Rumer said that she “would love to do an action movie with” Demi, calling the idea “so fun”.
She added: “I felt like a little kid when I found out I got [this role]”
She also shared that she is a huge fan of the Western genre including Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone and 1883.
Set in 1875, Trails of Vengeance follows Rumer’s character, Katherine Atherton, a widow whose life is upended by her husband’s murder, orchestrated by a nefarious colonel.
But in her quest for vengeance, she unexpectedly crosses paths with a former Pinkerton agent, a man with a troubled past.
