Bruce Willis made a rare appearance at his daughter Tallulah’s wedding this week, three years after being diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.
The 71-year-old action star was among partygoers in Idaho as Tallulah married musician Justin Acee.
He was captured in a Vogue photo series, embracing his daughter while clasping hands with his new son-in-law.
Tallulah wrote in a caption: “A tender moment with my dad and Justin at the start of wedding weekend.”
Willis has largely kept a low profile since his dementia diagnosis. In January, his wife Emma Heming Willis said that the actor “doesn’t know” that he has the degenerative disease as one of the neurological symptoms includes anosognosia – which prevents a person from accurately recognizing their own illness.
Tallulah Willis, 32, is the youngest of the star’s three daughters with his former wife Demi Moore. Her elder sisters are Rumer, 37, and Scout, 35.
Heming Willis married the Die Hard actor in 2009, with the couple now parents to daughters Mabel, 14, and Evelyn, 12.
Earlier this month, Heming Willis revealed that she was torn over whether to mark her recent 50th birthday in June, saying that she has “not really been in the celebratory feelings of late” because of her husband’s condition.
“I was unsure if I really wanted to do anything, but I had a friend of mine who kept sort of pushing me and saying, ‘You know what, you don’t want to miss out on your 50. You have to celebrate in some form or fashion.’ And I really sat with that and I thought about it,” she told Hoda Kotb on her Making Space podcast.
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She added that she “always wrestles” with guilt, adding: “I think guilt is something that I am always carrying, but I’ve learned that it is really not helpful.”
“I always go back to: what would my husband want for me?” she continued. “And he would want me to have a big, fun bash. He would want me to celebrate my life with my friends and family. And that is sort of what I always think about when guilt of any sort comes in front of me.”
Last year, Heming Willis moved her husband out of their family home as his condition became progressively worse. She said in August: “Bruce would want that for our daughters. He would want them to be in a home that was more tailored to their needs, not his needs.” He currently lives with a full-time care team in a one-story home.