Bruce Willis is ringing in a new decade with family.
The Hollywood star and ex-wife Demi Moore’s eldest daughter, Rumer Willis, gave fans a welcome update on her father’s health as he turned 70 on Wednesday.
During an impromptu Q&A with fans on social media, Rumer, 36, opened up about her father’s ongoing bout with frontotemporal dementia.
In an Instagram Story, the “House Bunny” alum was asked how her famous dad is doing, to which she responded, “He’s doing great, thank you for asking.”
“It is actually his 70th birthday tomorrow so please wish my papa a big happy birthday,” she said on Tuesday.
The father of five shares daughters Rumer, Tallulah, and Scout with ex-wife Demi Moore — to whom he was married from 1987 to 2000.
He also shares daughters Mabel and Evelyn with his current wife, Emma Heming Willis.
Willis’ family first announced the “Die Hard” star’s diagnosis with frontotemporal dementia, which can cause communication difficulties, in 2023.
The entire crew has been vocal about dealing with the family patriarch’s diagnosis.
“You know, I’ve said this before. The disease is what the disease is. And I think you have to be in real deep acceptance of what that is,” Moore, 62, said in October at the 2024 Hamptons International Film Festival. “But for where he’s at, he is stable.”
“What I always encourage is to just meet them where they’re at. When you’re holding on to what was, I think it’s a losing game,” the actress added. “But when you show up to meet them where they’re at, there is great beauty and sweetness.”
“And being able to share with whatever we have, for however long we have it,” Moore said of spending time with her ex-husband. “And being able to share with whatever we have, for however long we have it,” Moore reflected about spending time with Willis.
In February, Rumer also gave fans an update on her dad’s health.
“He’s doing great,” she expressed while on the U.K. chat show “Loose Women” at the time, admitting she is “grateful” for growing up with Willis and Moore as parents.
“The thing I’m most grateful for is that even when they split up, they created such a beautiful foundation of prioritizing my sisters and I, that I never felt like I had to choose — they never played against each other,” she recalled of the exes, who divorced in 2000.
“We were a family and we still are very much a family, no matter what,” Rumer shared.
In 2009, Willis tied the knot with Emma, 46. She has remained by the retired actor’s side since his health diagnosis.
The Make Time Wellness founder appeared on “Today” in 2023 and told then co-anchor Hoda Kotb that her husband may or may not know what was happening.
“It’s hard to know,” Emma said through tears. “It’s hard to know.”
“What I’m learning is that dementia is hard,” she continued. “It’s hard on the person diagnosed. It’s also hard on the family. And that is no different for Bruce, or myself, or our girls. When they say that this is a family disease, it really is.”
Before his diagnosis, Willis had been working as a leading man in Hollywood after landing the television series “Moonlighting” in 1985.
During the five-season drama, the actor won an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and a Golden Globe for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy.
In 1987, Willis starred in his first credited feature film “Blind Date,” opposite Kim Basinger and John Larroquette.
By 1988, the Hollywood icon played real-life cowboy actor Tom Mix in “Sunset” and brought the beloved action movie “Die Hard” to life.
Willis went on to star in four sequels of the franchise as John McClane over the next two decades.
