Bruce Willis' wife confirms his earliest sign of dementia was dismissed by doctors Hollywood star Bruce Willis' earliest dementia symptom was dismissed and mistaken for a return of childhood stuttering.
The Hollywood actor's wife, Emma Heming Willis, has now revealed that her husband's initial signs of dementia were ignored by health professionals.
Those closest to the Die Hard actor have said the star is now "non-verbal" and the "the joie de vivre is gone" and his wife Emma said there is a lot of "grief and sadness".
Jason Krellman, PhD, a Neuropsychologist and Assistant Professor of Neuropsychology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, opened up to Healthline about how stuttering and dementia are closely related.
Speaking in an interview with Town & Country, Emma explained that Bruce grew up with a bad stutter when he was a young boy.
