On Sept. 19, one of actor Bruce Willis’s daughters shared an update on his health while a guest on the Today Show.
While talking with Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie, Tallulah Willis shared that Bruce is “stable which, in this situation, is good,” she explained.
But despite finding the silver lining in his battle with frontotemporal dementia, or FTD, she admits “it’s hard” watching her father deal with the incurable brain disorder.
“There’s painful days but there’s so much love,” Tallulah told Today. “And it’s really shown me to not take any moment for granted and I really do think that we’d be best friends. I think he’s very proud of me.”
But despite doing her best to heed her mom actress Demi Moore’s advice to stay in the present, Tallulah admitted previously that she wishes she had more time with her father.
“I have hopes for my father that I’m so reluctant to let go of,” Tallulah wrote in Vogue earlier this year. “I’ve always recognized elements of his personality in me, and I just know that we’d be such good friends if only there were more time.”
Tallulah also opened up about the impact her autism diagnosis has made.
In March, after years of being misdiagnosed, Tallulah learned she is autistic at the age of 29.
“It was very emotional,” Tallulah said of receiving the diagnosis. But it was also “relief,” she told Today.
“If I’m being honest, I really hated myself and I thought I was very broken. So to learn that the elements of myself that I felt were malodies or wrong or just too much for this world are actually ok and they require just a little bit more tools.”
The diagnosis allowed Tallulah to offer herself more “grace,” she explained.
And although she’s still learning about autism, Tallulah, who is receiving an Autism Speaks award, believes it’s important to use her platform to talk about it.
“I always knew I had a responsibility to make that mean something,” she told Today. “There are so many people who I think are similar to me that are struggling.”