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Bruce Willis<\/a><\/strong>\u2018 friend and director, Glenn Gordon Caron<\/strong>, has said that the actor\u2019s communication ability has sharply declined amid his battle with dementia.<\/p>\n Speaking to the New York Post<\/a><\/em>, Caron said he tried to visit the Die Hard<\/em> actor almost every month since he was diagnosed with the degenerative disease earlier this year. He does feel that Willis still recognizes him during his visits. Caron created the television series \u2018Moonlighting\u2019 which helped Mr Willis rise to stardom in 1985.<\/p>\n \u201cMy sense is the first one to three minutes he knows who I am,\u201d Caron told the outlet. \u201cHe\u2019s not totally verbal; he used to be a voracious reader \u2013 he didn\u2019t want anyone to know that \u2013 and he\u2019s not reading now. All those language skills are no longer available to him, and yet he\u2019s still Bruce.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you\u2019re with him, you know that he\u2019s Bruce, and you\u2019re grateful that he\u2019s there, but the joie de vivre is gone,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Caron first worked with Bruce Willis when he played David Addison Junior in the Moonlighting<\/em><\/strong> series from 1985 to 89.<\/p>\n \u201cThe thing that makes his disease so mind-blowing is that if you\u2019ve ever spent time with Bruce Willis, no one had any more joie de vivre than he. He loved life and\u2026 just adored waking up every morning and trying to live life to its fullest,\u201d said Caron.<\/p>\n Willis\u2019 family revealed in February this year that he suffers from frontotemporal dementia<\/a>. The announcement was made less than a year after he stopped performing due to his aphasia diagnosis.<\/p>\n
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