Bruce Willis seen in rare photos celebrating Thanksgiving with daughters: 'Best dad ever'

Bruce Willis has been pictured in rare new photos nearly two years after his dementia diagnosis.

On Thanksgiving Day, the "Die Hard" franchise star's daughters Tallulah and Scout Willis, who he shares with Demi Moore, posted heartfelt Instagram photos on Thursday. In the snaps, Willis, 69, held a nameplate that said "Best Dad Ever" surrounded by his daughters on a couch.

The sisters, who posted the photos jointly, captioned the post "Grateful." Willis and Moore's eldest daughter Rumer Willis, the actress and "Dancing with the Stars" alum, was not pictured in the photos.

In March 2022, the family announced Willis would retire from acting amid an aphasia diagnosis. About a year later, in February 2023, they announced a health update for fans, telling Willis' followers he had been diagnosed with dementia.

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A message posted on the Instagram accounts of wife Emma Heming Willis, ex-wife Moore and daughter Rumer Willis stated: "Our family wanted to start by expressing our deepest gratitude for the incredible outpouring of love, support and wonderful stories we have all received since sharing Bruce’s original diagnosis." 

They continued: "Since we announced Bruce’s diagnosis of aphasia in spring 2022, Bruce’s condition has progressed and we now have a more specific diagnosis: frontotemporal dementia (known as FTD)."

His frontotemporal dementia diagnosis is a brain disorder caused by degeneration of the brain's frontal lobe.

In a personal essay for Vogue magazine published last year, Tallulah Willis said that she had "known that something was wrong for a long time" even before her father was diagnosed.

"It started out with a kind of vague unresponsiveness, which the family chalked up to Hollywood hearing loss: 'Speak up! 'Die Hard' messed with Dad’s ears,'" Tallullah Willis wrote. "Later that unresponsiveness broadened, and I sometimes took it personally."

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