


The Willis family (pictured) announced Bruce's diagnosis had progressed to FTD last week Now, the writer is warning the Willis family - who announced Bruce's diagnosis last week - that they will have a 'harder road to travel than my family did' as frontotemporal dementia is 'radically different' from Alzheimer's. 'I remember looking down at the street below - people hurrying along on their way to somewhere - and feeling time slow down.' My mother rarely called at that time of day, morning in California, but she said she was glad she reached me because my father had written a letter to the country and within a few hours it would be released.' Davis wrote in a New York Times op-ed. 'One afternoon the phone rang in my Manhattan apartment. He was five years out of the White House when he drafted the letter on November 5, 1994.ĭavis had found out about the letter just hours before its release when her mother phoned her from California. Patti Davis, 70, vividly remembers her father publicly announcing his diagnosis to his fellow Americans just weeks after the family privately found out. Ronald Reagan's daughter has warned Bruce Willis' family that they will have a 'hard road to travel' as he battles frontotemporal dementia (FTD) nearly 30 years after her father announced Alzheimer’s.
