United Kingdom, Oct. 2 -- Bruce Willis and his wife were left with "no hope, no direction [and] no support" when he was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

The 70-year-old actor was diagnosed with the degenerative condition in 2022, and his spouse Emma Heming Willis has expressed her frustration at how little information they were presented with by doctors in the immediate aftermath of their consultation.

She told Yahoo!: "The day we received the diagnosis, we walked out of that appointment with nothing - no hope, no direction, no support. I wasn't really given any information other than just the nuts and bolts of FTD.

"In looking back, I just think that's so crazy. It was such a traumatic experience, like your whole life is ...