Emma Heming and Maria Shriver Connect During Book Tour While Bruce Willis Stays in Separate Home

Bruce Willis’ wife Emma Heming warmly mingled with Maria Shriver amid her book tour for her memoir about his dementia decline.

Maria’s imprint The Open Field, a subsidiary of Penguin Books, was behind the publication of Emma’s new volume The Unexpected Journey.

Released last week, the book chronicles Emma’s life as she cares for her husband, 70, amid his shattering deterioration from frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

Now Emma has posted a video montage of her at a Live Talks Los Angeles speaking event with Maria in support of their project.

The video was set to a song called Blame Me by Emma’s stepdaughter Scout – one of Bruce’s three daughters by his first wife Demi Moore.

His blended family has rallied around him amid his illness, including Demi and their daughters Rumer, 37, Scout, 34, and Tallulah, 31.

In the caption of her new post, Emma revealed that the photos and video of her event with Maria were taken by ‘my BFF,’ photographer Quoc Ngo.

Describing Maria as ‘my mentor and publisher,’ Emma gushed: ‘I’ve been surrounded by love and support, from people I’ve known forever, to caregivers I’m honored to have just met, connected by the same unchosen thread that ties us together.’

She then shared a quote she had included in her book from public speaker Katie Brandt, who focuses on dementia caregiving.

‘We do not yet have a cure for dementia, but we do have a cure for the isolation and loneliness that may come with a diagnosis. That cure is community,’ Katie had said.

Bruce withdrew from Hollywood in 2022 after developing the brain condition aphasia, which causes the patient’s language abilities to deteriorate.

In 2023, his family announced that his illness had ‘progressed’ and he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

FTD does not cause memory loss at first, but rather initially attacks the parts of the brain in charge of language and personality.

Emma’s book publication comes after a family insider informed the Daily Mail that Bruce is ‘going downhill fast’ to the point he ‘doesn’t know some faces’ anymore.

The Daily Mail source said Bruce’s daughters are ‘are all spending as much time with him as they can,’ adding: ‘He lights up when he sees his children.’

Emma recently revealed that the ‘hardest decision’ she took while looking after him was moving him into a separate one-story house away from their primary residence.

He lives there with a full-time care team, while Emma brings their daughters Mabel, 13, and Evelyn, 11, to visit him ‘a lot,’ including for breakfast and dinner.

‘Bruce would want that for our daughters,’ said Emma. ‘He would want them to be in a home that was more tailored to their needs, not his needs.’

The couple made the revelation during a joint ABC special with Diane Sawyer entitled Emma and Bruce Willis: The Unexpected Journey.

Days after the broadcast aired, Emma posted to Instagram saying she had been criticized online for moving Bruce into a separate house.

She argued she had been judged ‘quickly and unfairly,’ saying viewers were split between ‘people with an opinion versus people with an actual experience.’

During the Diane Sawyer special, Emma explained: ‘Bruce is still very mobile. Bruce is in really great health overall, you know. It’s just his brain that is failing him.’ 

She added: ‘We have a way of communicating with him that is just a different, a different way, but I’m grateful. I’m grateful that my husband is still very much here.’