Demi Moore Gives an Update on Bruce Willis Amid Dementia Battle

Demi Moore has once again opened up about the health status of her ex-husband Bruce Willis, who was diagnosed with the neurocognitive disorder frontotemporal dementia early last year. In addition to sharing three adult daughters together, Moore has remained a close part of the family unit, including the 69-year-old actor's second wife of 15 years, Emma Heming ​Willis.

During an appearance on Friday's episode of The Drew Barrymore Show to promote her new horror film, The Substance, Moore was reunited with her Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle co-star, who shared her own memories of Willis.

"When we did Charlie’s Angels, Bruce came and played on it and he opens up the film, and we got to work with him," recalled host Drew Barrymore, via Entertainment Weekly. Willis appeared in an uncredited role in the 2003 action comedy as Justice Department official William Rose Bailey. "I mean, I used to know him when he was a bartender at Cafe Central! I’ve known him my whole life, too."

When asked how he was doing right now, Moore gave about as hopeful of a response as can be expected, all things considered. "Given the givens, he’s in a stable place," she shared.

"What I say to my kids is you meet them where they’re at," Moore continued. "You don’t hold on to who they were or what you want them to be, but who they are in this moment. And from that, there is such beauty and joy and loving and sweetness."

The 61-year-old also revealed that she makes a point to visit her ex as much as possible. "When I’m in L.A., I go over every week and I really treasure the time that we all share," she added.

Moore's latest update echoes her comments from earlier this year when speaking with Andy Cohen on his Radio Andy SiriusXM show. At the time, Cohen asked Moore what she would tell people who have family members living with dementia.

"When you let go of who they’ve been or who you think they [should be], or who even you would like them to be, you can then really stay in the present and take in the joy and the love that is present and there for all that they are, not all that they’re not," she said in the January interview.

Say what you will, but for an actor who spent much of his career as a tough-as-nails action hero, Willis certainly is lucky to be surrounded by such strong and compassionate women in his ailing heath.