Scout Willis reacts to ‘champion’ Emma Heming Willis sharing Bruce Willis’ story on TODAY

“Dementia is hard,” Heming Willis said on TODAY. “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 this is a family disease, it really is.”

Heming Willis' interview kicked off World FTD Awareness Week. She was joined by Susan Dickinson, the CEO of theComing to terms with her husband’s diagnosis was “the blessing and the curse,” Heming Willis said on TODAY. “To finally understand what was happening so that I could be into the acceptance of what is — it doesn’t make it any less painful, but ... just being in the know of what is happening to Bruce makes it a little easier.

“Listen, I think my kids would be great no matter what and this is not what I would want for them,” she told Hoda. “But really, like I said, it’s teaching them so much — how to care and love — and it’s really a beautiful thing amongst the sadness.”Scott Stump is a staff reporter and the writer of the daily newsletter This is TODAY. He has been a regular contributor for TODAY.

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