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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]His wife has asked the paparazzi to not yell at him when in public so as not to confuse him. And to give him space

Why is he out in public? If he gets that confused they should keep him away from the public. I am sure they have huge properties that can keep him active and away from the public eye. He is probably at the point where he is not that aware of what is happening.

She is now playing the caring and concerned wife. The one who had him make 21 cheap cheap cheap films in a span of 2 years to make a few million before he could no longer be on set.

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You (and the gossip columns) have zero idea if his wife was truly pushing him to "make 21 films" etc. at that point. People with dementias can have periods when they are capable of making decisions for themselves, and dementia is different in every single patient. You cannot know that he didn't agree to sign on for this or that movie, at points when he was fully cognizant of what he was agreeing to do. He himself may have been the one pushing to work a lot in a short span of time, when he realized he was going to lose the capacity to work sooner rather than later. I'm not a huge fan of his as an actor and don't know his wife from lamppost, but I do know that you have NO understanding of dementia if you think a person with dementia would never ramp up work. During lucid periods--when you're [i]aware[/i] that you are not always aware of everything --there can be massive fear of never being able to work or be useful to your family again.

It's terrifying for the person with dementia and the reaction sometimes is to try to prepare for the time when they won't know anything that's going on and won't be able to work. If you've never experienced having a person with dementia in your life, you should stop making a mean-spirited fool of yourself by speculating about any damn thing going on in Bruce Willis's life or marriage.[/quote]

There were claims he needed an ear piece so someone could tell him his lines. The aphasia didn’t happen overnight. And why would he want his reputation be stained by poorly made movies and poor acting by himself? And pretty sure he doesn’t need the money as his net worth is reported to be $250 million.[/quote]

If you really think he's the only actor in Hollywood who has had to have lines fed to him like that, you are pretty naive. And many don't do it because of dementia.

And you're still not getting that as aphasia and dementia advance there can stilll be lucid periods when the person wants to make decisions of their own while they still can. Even if you judge those decisions as poor ones, which perhaps they were.

You also missed the post up-thread where it was mentioned that his "net worth" may not translate into actual money he's got to leave his kids. [/quote]

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