Bruce Willis surrounded by blended family in sweet throwback posted by wife Emma Heming for Thanksgiving… amid his dementia battle

Bruce Willis was surrounded by his whole blended family in a heartwarming throwback snap posted by his wife Emma Heming for Thanksgiving.

He has five daughters – Mabel, 11, and Evelyn, nine, whom he had with Emma, plus Rumer, 35, Scout, 32, and Tallulah, 29, by his first wife Demi Moore.

All of his children and both of his wives have rallied around Bruce as the 68-year-old movie star suffers through a battle with dementia.

They were all pictured with him in Emma’s flashback snap, along with Scout’s boyfriend Jake Miller and Rumer’s beau Derek Richard Thomas.

At the time the picture was taken, Rumer was apparently still pregnant with her and Derek’s daughter Louetta, whom she gave birth to in April.

‘I’m grateful and thankful to know this kind of love,’ wrote Emma in a caption awash with heart emojis. ‘Wishing you all a Happy Thanksgiving.’

Just three days earlier, Rumer touchingly posted a throwback of herself as a little girl in Bruce’s arms and wrote: ‘Really missing my papa today.’

Her post came about a month after a heartbreaking update from one of Bruce’s old friends about the state of his dementia decline.

Glenn Gordon Caron, who created Bruce’s star-making 1980s sitcom Moonlighting,  shared his experiences of visiting the movie star amid his illness.

‘My sense is the first one to three minutes he knows who I am,’ said Glenn in his devastating interview with Page Six. ‘He’s not totally verbal; he used to be a voracious reader – he didn’t want anyone to know that – and he’s not reading now.’

Glenn, who also created the show Medium, revealed: ‘All those language skills are no longer available to him, and yet he’s still Bruce.’

He added: ‘When you’re with him you know that he’s Bruce and you’re grateful that he’s there, but the joie de vivre is gone.’

Last year Bruce withdrew from showbiz amid his battle with the brain condition aphasia, which causes the patient’s language abilities to deteriorate.

Throwback: Bruce Willis is pictured with his ex-wife Demi Moore, his wife Emma Heming and his daughters Rumer, Scout, Tallulah, Mabel and Evelyn, plus Rumer and Scout’s boyfriends

Loved ones: The actor, 68, who is battling dementia, looked in good spirits while surrounded by his loved ones in the snap, which his wife posted to Instagram on Thanksgiving

Baby mine: At the time the picture was taken, Rumer was apparently still pregnant with her and Derek’s daughter Louetta, whom she gave birth to in April

Nostalgia: Just three days earlier, Rumer touchingly posted a throwback of herself as a little girl in Bruce’s arms and wrote: ‘Really missing my papa today’

Health battle: Emma (2nd to R) has continued to share updates on his battle with dementia and aphasia, as well as the difficult of being a caregiver; seen in 2019 in LA
Then this March his family announced that his illness had ‘progressed’ and he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

Since Bruce’s battle with aphasia began, Glenn has apparently tried to pay monthly visits to him, not always successfully.

‘I’m not always quite that good,’ the television writer confessed: ‘but I try and I do talk to him and his wife and I have a casual relationship with his three older children. I have tried very hard to stay in his life.’

Glenn shared: ‘The thing that makes [his disease] so mind-blowing is if you’ve ever spent time with Bruce Willis, there is no one who had any more joie de vivre than he.’

Bruce ‘just adored waking up every morning and trying to live life to its fullest,’ but now he lives as though ‘seeing life through a screen door.’