Bruce Willis appears for the first time in public since the dementia diagnosis

Bruce Willis made a rare and special public excursion.

The Die Hard the star’s wife Emma Heming shared one Video Of the 69 -year -olds who greet the firefighters in the middle of the Los Angeles forest fires – which marks his first public performance since his frontotemporal dementia diagnosis in 2022.

In the clip, Bruce gives first aids in his hands as he has a conversation. The Pulp fiction The star even poses for a photo with the firefighters who have worked to limit the fires of southern California that have left thousands of inhabitants expelled since they began January 7.

“Bruce discovered a first responder and never missed a chance to show his gratitude with a heartfelt handshake and a ‘thank you for your service’,” Emma wrote on the Instagram post on January 16. “Yesterday was no different.”

Bruce’s family including Emma, ​​his ex -wife Demi Moore and their three adult daughters Rums36, Scout33 and Tallulah30, announced that the actor was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia in 2022. FTD, according to Mayo Clinicis “an umbrella designation for a group of brain diseases that mainly strike the frontal and temporal tags of the brain. These areas of the brain are associated with personality, behavior and language.”