Daddy’s woman.
Rumer Willis shared an emotional tribute to her dad Bruce Willis on Father’s Day amidst his dementia battle.
“Today is hard, I feel a deep ache in my chest to talk to you and tell you everything I’m doing and what’s going on in my life,” Rumer, 36, wrote on Instagram Sunday alongside pictures of the father-daughter duo.
“To hug you and ask you about life and your stories and struggles and successes,” Rumer continued. “I wish I asked you more questions while you could still tell me about it all. But I know you wouldn’t want me to be sad today so I’ll try to just be grateful reminding myself how lucky I am that you’re my dad and that you’re still with me and I can still hold you and hug you and kiss your cheek and rub your head I can tell you stories.”
The “Dancing with the Stars” winner stated that regardless of Bruce’s well being battle, she nonetheless will get to witness his “eyes light up” when he sees her 2-year-old daughter, Louetta.
“I will be grateful for every moment I have with you,” Rumer stated. “I love you so much dad happy Father’s Day. Sending love to all those who are in the boat with me or have lost their fathers, to the single moms who are the dads too, to my future baby daddy…❤️.”
Rumer’s put up additionally included an image of the “Die Hard” actor along with his granddaughter, whom Rumer welcomed in 2023 together with her ex, Derek Richard Thomas.
Bruce shares Rumer, in addition to daughters Tallulah Willis, 31, and Scout Willis, 33, along with his ex-wife Demi Moore. He’s additionally dad to daughters Mabel, 12, and Evelyn, 10, whom he shares with spouse Emma Heming.
Heming, 46, penned her personal heartbreaking tribute to Bruce on Father’s Day with an image of her hugging the “Pulp Fiction” star.
“Happy Father’s Day to all the dads living with disability or disease, showing up in the ways they can and to the children who show up for them,” Heming wrote. “What Bruce teaches our women goes far past phrases. Resilience, unconditional love, and the quiet energy in merely being current.
“This photo says so much,” Heming continued. “Love deepens. It adapts. It stays, even when everything else changes. But to be fair to myself, these symbolic days stir up a lot.”
The writer admitted that she’s “profoundly sad today” and stated she needs “that things could be different for him and lighter for our family.”
“As they say in our FTD community, ‘It is what it is,’” Heming wrote. “And while that might sound dismissive, to me, it’s not. It grounds me. It helps me return to the acceptance of what is and not fight this every step of the way like I used to.”
“Today, let’s celebrate the badass dads, those who are here, and those we carry with us 💙 Onward,” Heming concluded.
Bruce’s household first introduced his prognosis with frontotemporal dementia, which may trigger communication difficulties, in 2023.
Heming, who tied the knot with Bruce in 2009, has remained by the retired actor’s aspect since his well being prognosis.
The Make Time Wellness founder appeared on “Today” in 2023 and instructed then co-anchor Hoda Kotb that her husband might or might not know what was taking place.
“It’s hard to know,” Emma stated by means of tears. “It’s hard to know.”
Rumer, for her half, solely instructed The Submit final 12 months that whereas it was “scary” to disclose Bruce’s prognosis, the household is grateful for all of the help they’ve obtained.
“I just have such deep gratitude for the love that comes our way,” she stated.
