Bruce Willis Seen in Public as He Thanks L.A. First Responders in New Video

Bruce Willis is stepping out in public to thank first responders as wildfires proceed all through Los Angeles.

On Thursday, Jan. 16, Willis’ spouse Emma Heming Willis shared a black-and-white video to Instagram exhibiting Willis sporting a New York Yankees cap and shaking palms with a Los Angeles police officer and posing for a photograph. The video was set to the Led Zeppelin tune “Going to California.”

Emma, 46, wrote in her caption that the video was taken on Wednesday, Jan. 15. “Spotting a primary responder, Bruce by no means missed an opportunity to point out his gratitude with a heartfelt handshake and a “thank you for your service.” Yesterday was no totally different ❤️🤍💙,” she wrote.

“This makes my coronary heart so freaking full,” Tallulah Wilis, Bruce’s youngest daughter with ex-wife Demi Moore, wrote in a touch upon Emma’s put up.

The new Instagram video seems to be the primary time the Die Hard icon, 69, has been seen out in public since 2022, when his household introduced that the actor had been recognized with the language dysfunction aphasia and could be stepping away from performing. In 2023, the Willis household shared that Bruce had obtained a extra particular analysis of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a progressive situation which causes the frontal and temporal lobes of the mind to atrophy.

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On Dec. 29, Emma — who married Bruce in 2009 — marked the anniversary of when the pair started courting by sharing a put up on Instagram that includes a photograph of the couple at sundown as they stood in shallow water of their swimsuits.

“17 years of us ❤️,” Emma wrote in a caption. She moreover wrote in that put up that anniversaries with Bruce “used to deliver pleasure — now, if I’m trustworthy, they fire up all the emotions, leaving a heaviness in my coronary heart and a pit in my abdomen.”

“I give myself half-hour to take a seat within the ‘why him, why us,’ to really feel the anger and grief. Then I shake it off and return to what’s. And what’s… is unconditional love. I really feel blessed to realize it, and it’s due to him. I’d do it throughout many times in a heartbeat 💞

Emma and Bruce share two daughters: Mabel Ray Willis, 12, and Evelyn Penn Willis, 10. The actor additionally shares older daughters Rumer Glenn Willis, 36, and Scout LaRue Willis, 33, with The Substance star Moore, whom he was married to from 1987 to 2000.

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