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Will Matthew Perry have to apologize for Bruce Willis partying story?

After years of sobriety, Bruce Willis is allowing himself alcohol again, but in limited quantities, the “Die Hard” star told GQ magazine in a new cover story. Some people suffer from language changes, including using words in the wrong order or incorrectly — calling a sheep a dog, for example, the NHS says. FTD is a group of dementias that mainly affect personality and behavior or language and speech because of damage to the front or sides of the brain, Sebastian Crutch, professor of neuropsychology at UCL’s Dementia Research Centre, UK, told Insider. He already had stage experience during the early years of his career and a few productions throughout — including “True West” — but this marked his first time on the Great White Way, according to the BBC. Shepherd’s pregnancy made tensions worse, since the schedule was shifted to accommodate her, and Willis was forced to work longer hours. When the pair had to film a scene that featured an argument between their characters, it devolved into an actual argument.

Perry wrote about how “The Whole Nine Yards” fell into his lap after he’d begun drinking again following a period of sobriety, the Daily Mail said. “Dear Bruce Willis, I’m so sorry to hear what you are going through, but you’re still the coolest man I’ve met in my entire life,” Perry tweeted. “But there was a big difference between Bruce and me. Bruce was a partier; I was an addict. Bruce has an on-off button. He can party like crazy, then get a script like The Sixth Sense and stop the partying and nail the movie sober,” Perry writes.

On one occasion, Willis questioned crew members why he was on set, visibly confused. It may be surprising that a name like “Bruce Willis” hasn’t harvested an Oscar, let alone a Golden Globe for one of his movies, but that’s certainly the case for the actor. The most prominent awards he’s received are two Primetime Emmys for his early career role in the show “Moonlighting” and for his guest star role on “Friends,” according to his IMDb awards page. He’s received a Golden Globe — and a nomination — but they were also mostly for “Moonlighting.” As a singer, Willis released his debut album, The Return of Bruno, in 1987, followed by two more albums in 1989 and 2001. Willis has received various accolades throughout his career, including a Golden Globe Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and two People’s Choice Awards.

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Films featuring Willis have grossed between US$2.64 billion and US$3.05 billion at North American box offices, making him in 2010 the eighth-highest-grossing leading actor. After a diagnosis with the disorder aphasia, Bruce Willis’ family announced his retirement, ending a 42-year career. His family released a statement on Instagram, stating that the communication disorder was “impacting his cognitive abilities,” per Variety. Aphasia generally affects how people speak and understand language, but the severity of it varies. Damage to the temporal lobe in the brain affects the ability to understand speech; additional damage to the frontal lobe affects the ability to speak. It’s unclear to what extent Willis is affected, but as expert Swathi Kiran writes in The Independent, most people affected by aphasia have trouble recalling words.

This was evident to those near Willis during the final years of his career. According to The Los Angeles Times, nearly 20 people on set with Willis suspected his mental decline. He allegedly misfired a gun loaded with blanks on the set of “Hard Kill.” His agents at the Creative Artists Agency made sure his shooting times on films were restricted to two days, and the actor often limited his time to four hours.

He played a small but memorable role in “Pulp Fiction,” which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and won the Palm D’Or at Cannes, according to its IMDb awards page. Night Shyamalan’s “The Sixth Sense,” which garnered six Oscar nominations (via IMDb). That’s not to mention his appearances in the critically acclaimed movies “12 Monkeys” and “Moonrise Kingdom,” according to IMDb. In a statement on Thursday, the Willis family said his condition had progressed and he had a more specific diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia — the most common form of dementia for people under 60 — of which aphasia is an early symptom. His family announced last year that the 67-year-old “Die Hard” star was retiring from acting after being diagnosed with aphasia, a language and communication disorder. Willis starred alongside Bill Murray, Edward Norton, and Frances McDormand in Moonrise Kingdom (2012).

After the GQ interview was published last year, there were reports across the Internet that screamed, “Bruce Willis reveals he’s not sober anymore! Back in the 1980’s, Bruce Willis was getting paid enormous amounts of money to promote Seagram’s Golden Wine Cooler. And before that, before he got his break in Moonlighting, he was a bartender on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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In an interview with The Guardian, Willis revealed that an accident on the set of “Die Hard” left him partially deaf in his left ear. As he jokingly described it, he now has a “tendency to say, ‘Whaa?'” when speaking to others. Rumer Willis, Willis’ eldest daughter, elaborated on his father’s condition, saying his hearing loss is due to a scene in “Die Hard” when “he shot a gun off next to his ear,” Rumer said (per the Toronto Sun).

1. Robert passed away only six weeks later, and the national telecast of “True West” was dedicated to his memory.
2. They tied the knot that same year in a wedding that was officiated by singer Little Richard, per People.
3. Willis had invested much of himself into the production — the film boasts his only writing credit, according to The Independent.
4. “That’s when I saw the real Bruce Willis—a good-hearted man, a caring man, selfless. A wonderful parent. And a wonderful actor. And most important, a good guy.”

That year, Willis had just begun an acting career in Blind Date with Kim Basinger. And between Moonlighting and Blind Date, he has gone to make 73 other films from Pulp Fiction to TheSixth Sense to 12 Monkeys to The Bonfire of the Vanities. And of course, his blockbuster his, Die Hard, stands out in his career as an actor. Today, Willis admits that he has a glass of wine with dinner, as he casually mentioned in his GQ interview. This hit the sober living community hard, especially those who believe in once an alcoholic always an alcoholic, and so having a drink means risky behavior.

Bruce Willis: I was on the wagon, but I drink wine now

It’s widely considered that “Hudson Hawk” was the start of Bruce Willis’ career nosedive. Most of his latest films have been direct-to-video productions in which Willis appears in — what are essentially — glorified cameos so that his name can be used in press releases and on the film poster, according to Yahoo News. It’s called the “geezer teaser” genre — a marketing ploy by obscure movie productions that hire film stars past their prime but whose names still hold lucrative weight, and Willis has been the frontman during the 2010s. Stars used in this formula are compensated considerably but are never used substantially in those films, according to Vanity Fair. He played the lead role of author Paul Sheldon in the stage adaptation of Stephen King’s “Misery.” The play was meant to be a thriller, as Sheldon is held captive by a rabid fan and must rewrite his book in order to save his own life, according to Playbill.

The 1991 box-office bomb “Hudson Hawk” was quite the departure from what made Bruce Willis a megastar. Willis had invested much of himself into the production — the film boasts his only writing credit, according to The Independent. De Souza said that Willis “took over the whole movie” and started re-writing the script. It was also based on an idea that Willis kept for 12 years, according to The New York Times. In the media, Willis was portrayed as a large personality that made the production effort difficult. According to an anonymous crew member, Willis commanded the set, leading to disagreements between him and the director, Michael Lehmann.

Meanwhile, Perry continues to give interviews and maybe get into more trouble with some of his revelations. Matthew Perry appears eager to live up to the Alcoholics Anonymous credo of “rigorous honesty,” while also selling some books, but he’s come under fire for perhaps indulging in too much “rigorous honesty” about other famous people. Willis also discussed the 1994 classic “Pulp Fiction,” and the disturbing scene he shared with Ving Rhames.

Willis also appeared alongside Perry when he guest starred on season 6 of the hit NBC sitcom in 2000. Perry also shared heartfelt moments with Willis that let him see the action star’s “caring” side. Willis, who stars in “A Good Day To Die Hard,” which opens in theaters on Feb. 14, has had a long and impressive career, but he still has goals in sight. If you, or someone you know, are in immediate danger with thoughts of harming yourself or are experiencing a medical emergency, PLEASE CALL NOW!

Even when a person is no longer drinking, patterns of thought that might have led to the drinking in the first place are often still in full swing. The negative connotation to this phrase comes from the fact that family, friends, and co-workers must still have to bear the arrogance and destructive behavior of a recovering alcoholic. Perhaps for this reason, the headlines that Willis was drinking again spread across the Internet. “Once I realized that I wasn’t gonna run myself off the pier of life with alcohol, drinking vodka out of the bottle every day … I have wine now, mostly when I eat,” he said in the magazine interview. In the later years of his career, he starred in many low-budget direct-to-video films, which were mostly poorly received.

Also known as “Dry January,” this public health campaign was formed in 2013 by the U.K. Nonprofit Alcohol for Change to encourage people to abstain from alcohol for a month, according to OprahDaily. Moore wrote in her 2019 autobiography “Inside Out” that their marriage became strained due to philosophical differences (via Showbiz Cheatsheet).

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If someone you love needs help battling this addiction, an alcohol interventionist may be able to help. By holding an alcohol abuse intervention, you can voice your concerns and provide the support your friend, relative or child needs to overcome their drinking habit. According to reports, Willis abandoned his spokesperson role in 1988 when it was clear that his drinking was becoming an issue. The famed actor joined Alcoholics Anonymous and went entirely sober – though he told GQ that he now occasionally indulges in a glass of wine with dinner. If someone you care about has developed a drinking problem, you may fear that this habit will prevent them from achieving what they want in life, whether it’s a family, a career or some other means of fulfillment.