Bruce Willis’ Daughter Rumer Shares Insight Into His Role as Grandpa
Bruce Willis is unbreakable.
Two years after the 69-year-old stepped away from acting amid his battle with frontotemporal dementia, his daughter Rumer Willis shared an encouraging update on her father.
"He's doing really well," she exclusively told E! News at a screening of Trail of Vengeance by SkipStone Pictures. "I've seen him like the other the other day, right before I left and we got to all go over, and it was so wonderful."
The 35-year-old continued to gush about how her father is as a grandfather to her daughter, Louetta, 17 months, who she shares with ex Derek Richard Thomas.
"She's the only grandchild. It's just nice," Rumer shared. "I feel like being able to share in any sort of, you know, like a new life and grandchildren era, is just such a beautiful thing."
She went on, "And, you know, especially because he's such a girl dad anyway. I mean, having another girl is pretty cool."
Rumer added that it's "so sweet" seeing Bruce—who shares Rumer and her sisters Scout Willis, 32, and Tallulah Willis, 30, with ex-wife Demi Moore—with his granddaughter and that "everyone's obsessed" with Louetta—so much so that "they call and want to have playdates with her."
The House Bunny actress' update follows her recent reveal that she and Derek had broken up a year after welcoming their daughter into the world. Even though they're not together romantically anymore, Rumer shared that coparenting has been going well.
"Derek and I have an unbelievable coparenting relationship and friendship that’s so loving and wonderful," she told E! News. "I have such an incredible example of that with my parents, that that's created such a beautiful foundation for us."
The actress—who has since moved on to a new chapter in her personal life—continued, "He’s still my best friend."
When she shared the news of her breakup with the world, Rumer stressed that her daughter remained her priority.
"I am single momming it and coparenting," she wrote on her Instagram Stories Aug. 22. "I'm so grateful for Lou. She is the best thing in my life and I'm forever grateful I was able to have the time in that relationship for her to come into my life."
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--Reporting by Amanda Champagne-Meadows
"Oh Daddio, to be loved by you is such a gift," Rumer Willis wrote in an Instagram tribute to her father in March 2024. "You are the funniest, most tender, charming, out of this world silly talented and magical papa. Looking through these photos this morning I am just filled with the deepest gratitude that we chose to spend this life together. I am your first baby and man sometimes I wish I could be tiny enough to just cozy up on your chest again and laugh and cuddle you."
She continued, "I love you so deep in my bones I don’t know how my muscles hold them. You are the greatest papa I could ever hope for. Thank you for your generosity, your silliness and heart. Lou loves you so big. Happy Birthday Daddio."
Love is a beautiful thing," the actor's wife Emma Heming Willis wrote on Instagram, almost exactly one year after his family announced his frontotemporal dementia diagnosis. "Wishing you all a Happy Valentine’s Day."
In February 2024, Demi Moore shared this pic of her ex-husband with the youngest of the three daughters they share together, writing, "Showering our @buuski with love today on her 30th birthday."
In November 2023, the actor celebrated his first Thanksgiving since being diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia earlier that year. His wife Emma shared this photo from Bruce's 68th birthday party from March.
"I’m grateful and thankful to know this kind of love," she wrote. "Wishing you all a Happy Thanksgiving."
Bruce Willis stepped out with Emma to celebrate the release of Demi's 2019 memoir Inside Out. He is joined by his three daughters with the G.I. Jane actress, Rumer Willis, Scout Willis and Tallulah Willis.
Bruce and Emma appear on a hike with their daughters Evelyn Willis and Mabel Willis.
The actor posed with his ex-wife and their daughters Rumer and Tallulah backstage at his Comedy Central roast in 2018.
Bruce became a grandpa in April 2023 when Rumer welcomed a baby girl named Louetta.
The entire family got together to celebrate the birth of Rumer's baby.
Bruce had two special vistors when he starred in Broadway's Misery in 2016.
The family showed up in full force to support Rumer's 2015 Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in Chicago.
"I put my camera on a ladder, set the timer, and crossed my fingers," Emma captioned this family Christmas photo. "Now that’s 2020 for you."
Bruce took his three oldest daughters to the Over the Hedge premiere in 2006.
The dad of five shared a sweet moment with daughter Mabel.
Tallulah, Scout and Rumer joined their dad at a Bruce Willis Charity Foundation in 2005.
The family celebrated Rumer's Dancing With the Stars win with Val Chmerkovskiy.
"What a privilege it is every day to be your daughter," Rumer captioned this throwback photo. "I love you so much. You are the coolest cat in town."
Emma rang in her 43rd birthday in 2021 with Bruce and their daughters, as well as Rumer and Demi.
The family spent Christmas 2022 together.
Bruce was joined by mom Marlene and his three oldest daughters when he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006.
The action star dressed up with Mabel and Evelyn on Halloween 2021.
Tallulah jokingly captioned this photo of herself and dad Bruce making silly faces, "high drama club."
Evelyn and Mabel hit the slopes during a family ski trip.
The family, including Demi's then-husband Ashton Kutcher, stepped out to watch Rumer in 2008's The House Bunny.
Bruce and Emma took their kids to Walt Disney World in 2017.
"First time performing in a play for these two!" Emma wrote on Instagram 2018. "Mabel played Molly and Evelyn as Sandy in an Off-off-off-off-off-off Broadway [winking emoji] production of Annie. The whole cast and production was stellar—Mom and Dad couldn’t be prouder."