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Bruce Willis in 2019 at the New York Film Festival
Actor Bruce Willis has frontotemporal dementia, his family has announced.
In a statement on social media, they said it was a "relief to finally have a clear diagnosis".
In spring 2022, he was diagnosed with aphasia - which causes difficulties with speech - but this has progressed and he has been given a more specific diagnosis, the family said.
They expressed their "deepest gratitude for the incredible outpouring of love".
The family went on to say frontotemporal dementia is the most common form of dementia in people under 60.
The statement said: "Today there are no treatments for the disease, a reality that we hope can change in the years ahead."
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