Bruce Willis hardly reflected on his career before dementia diagnosis

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Hollywood legend Bruce Willis rarely thought about his illustrious career before his heartbreaking dementia diagnosis.

The 70-year-old actor - who was diagnosed with the degenerative condition that causes a decline in thinking, memory, and reasoning skills in 2022 - just wanted to focus on injecting happiness into millions of people’s lives through his film and TV projects.

Bruce’s 47-year-old wife Emma Heming Willis told People: “I don’t know that he ever has [reflected on his legacy]. “I don’t think that he’s ever harped or thought long and hard about who he is, what he’s done. I think he’s just always enjoyed being an actor, entertaining people.”

Emma - who married the Die Hard actor in a gorgeous beachfront ceremony in the Turks and Caicos Islands in 2009 - says Bruce’s humble nature is a reason she fell in love with him after they met at a gym shared by their personal trainer in 2007.

She continued about Bruce being an entertainer: “He really loved it. It was a passion of his. That’s why I love him. He’s just always so humble. You would never know.”

Bruce shot to global stardom in the 1980s when he was cast in the ABC comedy-drama series, Moonlighting, as David Addison Jr.

The award-winning star then went on to appear in major blockbusters, including the 1994 crime-thriller Pulp Fiction, the 1998 sci-fi-action movie Armageddon, and the 1999 horror-mystery film The Sixth Sense.

Bruce retired from acting in 2022, after he was diagnosed with aphasia, which later progressed to frontotemporal dementia (FTD) - a group of brain disorders affecting personality, behavior, and language.