Emma Heming Willis has told her online followers that a clinical trial searching for a cure for frontotemporal dementia – a debilitating brain disease affecting her husband, Bruce Willis – has ended.
Bruce Willis retired from acting at age 68 earlier this year because of the disease’s progress. “Yesterday I read that Wave Life Sciences ended their clinical trial that could potentially treat frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Where I’m not sure it could have helped us over here, it doesn’t really matter, it still feels like a gut punch,” she wrote.
She used a photo on the post of her daughters, Evelyn and Mabel, whom she shares with her husband. “But I always have to look at the silver linings—they are trying.
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