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Anthony France

Demi Moore shares touching photo with ex-husband Bruce Willis on acting legend’s 69th birthday

Bruce Willis’s ex-wife Demi Moore added to emotional birthday tributes as the actor battling frontotemporal dementia turned 69 on Tuesday.

Hollywood star Moore, 61, took to Instagram to send the Die Hard action hero best wishes.

In a caption to three photos, she wrote: “Happy birthday, BW! We love you and are so grateful for you [love heart emoji]”.

In the first snap, Moore is perched on the arm of a chair in which Willis is sitting and is seen clasping his hand which is resting on her arm.

The second photo features Willis smiling at his granddaughter Louetta.

A last picture is a throwback featuring Willis with the three daughters he and Moore share — Rumer, 35, Scout, 32, and Tallulah, 30.

Louetta is the daughter Rumer welcomed last year with her boyfriend, musician Derek Richard Thomas.

It was first revealed in March 2022 that Willis had been diagnosed with aphasia, a disorder that affects communication abilities.

Last year, Willis’s daughter Rumer provided an updated in which she explained he had received a “more specific” diagnosis of FTD.

Moonlighting star Willis is best known for films such as Die Hard, The Sixth Sense and Pulp Fiction, but has stepped away from his acting career amid his health struggles.

The actor and second wife Emma Heming have been married for 15 years.

Former model Heming hailed Willis as “a true gentleman” with “so much love to give and share” in her own birthday social media post, adding to fans: “Just like you, we simply adore him.

“What you might not know, but maybe you could imagine, that being wrapped in his arms is the safest place in this whole wide world.”

On Monday, Tallulah, the daughter he had with Moore, publicly spoke about her autism diagnosis for the first time.

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