Bruce Willis is retiring from acting due to a serious illness
The legendary Bruce Willis is retiring from acting because he has been diagnosed with aphasia, a medical condition characterized by speech difficulties and is often caused by damage to the left side of the brain, his family members said.
"To the incredible Bruce supporters, as a family we want to share that our beloved Bruce is facing health problems and that he was recently diagnosed with aphasia that affects his cognitive abilities. As a result, and with much thought, Bruce will give up the career that meant so much to him. This is a really challenging time for our family and we are very grateful for your love, compassion and support. "We are going through this together and we wanted to inform his fans because we know how much he means to you, how you mean to him," said a statement shared by his current wife Emma Willis, his ex-wife Demi Moore and his five children. has from both marriages.
Bruce Willis was born on March 19, 1955, in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany. His father, David Willis, was an American soldier. His mother, Marlene K. was a German born in Kaufungen, near Kassel. Willis is the eldest of four children: he has a sister, Florence, and a brother, David. His brother Robert died in 2001, at the age of 42, of pancreatic cancer.
After being discharged from the military in 1957, Willis's father returned with his family to Carnis Point, New Jersey. His mother worked in a bank, and his father was a welder, mechanic and factory worker. Willis went to Pence Grove High School in his hometown, where he struggled with stuttering. His classmates called him Buck-Buck. Noting that he wanted to express himself easily on stage, and at the same time that he was losing his stuttering problems, Willis started acting, and all his high school activities were related to things like the drama club, and he was also the president of the student advice.
After graduating from high school, Willis worked as a security guard at the Salem Nuclear Power Plant and also transported groups of workers to the Dupont plant in Deepwater, New Jersey.
After working as a private detective, Willis returned to acting. He enrolled in the drama program at Montclair State University. In his final year of study, he dropped out and moved to New York, where in the early XNUMXs he made a living as a bartender at Kamikaze Bar.
He started his acting career in 1982, when he appeared as an extra in the last scene of the movie "Judgment", starring Paul Newman. Bruce Willis is remembered for his cult roles in "Die Hard", "The Fifth Element", "Armageddon", "The Sixth Sense" etc.
