Top Hollywood actor Bruce Willis has frontotemporal dementia, his family has announced.
In a statement on social media, they said it was a “relief to finally have a clear diagnosis”.
The 67-year-old was diagnosed with aphasia which causes difficulties with speech – in spring last year, but this has progressed and he has been given a more specific diagnosis, the family said.
Willis became a household name in the 1980s and 90s after starring in blockbuster films such as Die Hard, The Sixth Sense, Armageddon and Pulp Fiction.
