Demi Moore praises Emma Heming Willis for Bruce Willis caregiving

Demi Moore praised Emma Heming Willis for her handling of Bruce Willis's decline and urged compassion for caregivers during an appearance on Tuesday's episode of The Oprah Podcast, where Winfrey interviewed Heming Willis about her new memoir chronicling life as her husband's primary caregiver. Moore, who was married to Willis from 1987 to 2000, said watching the actor change as his illness progressed had been painful but that meeting him where he is has revealed "an incredible sweetness and something that is soft and tender and loving."

Heming Willis, who married the retired actor in 2009, has been publicly navigating the family's response since Willis announced an aphasia diagnosis and retired from acting in 2022, and the family disclosed a subsequent diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia in 2023. The couple shares two daughters, ages 11 and 13, and Moore and Willis share three adult daughters. Heming Willis told Winfrey that she made the difficult decision to move Willis into a separate, one story home staffed by a full time care team to better meet the needs of their children and to provide a setting tailored to his care. "He would want them to be in a home that was more...