Bruce Willis was revealed to suffer from this week - after having a stroke in 2020. Aphasia is a potentially devastating condition which affects one's ability to understand language.
The TV star's wife Anita, 69, told The Sun on Sunday: 'It's awful, we've been so lonely. Chris is trapped in his body. He can understand everything going on around him but can't speak, read or write. 'He has not uttered any sense in 18 months.
Sometimes I feel as if I have lost my charismatic, very funny and caring husband. 'It's frustrating for us both but when he looks into my eyes, I see he's still in there.
I have cried buckets. ' Chris played the volatile Burnside for 15 years on The Bill and proved so popular that he got a spin-off in 2000.
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