According to his family, actor Bruce Willis has frontotemporal dementia.
They said it was a "relief to finally have a clear diagnosis" in a statement posted on social media.
The 67-year-old was given a more specific diagnosis after progressing from his initial aphasia diagnosis, which results in speech difficulties, made in the spring of last year, according to the family.
They gave their "sincere thanks for the overwhelming outpouring of love.".
Frontotemporal dementia is the most prevalent type of dementia in people under 60, the family continued.
There are currently no treatments for the disease, but we hope that will change in the years to come. " .
After starring in blockbuster movies like Die Hard, The Sixth Sense, Armageddon, and Pulp Fiction, Willis rose to fame in the 1980s and 1990s.
He was also nominated for three Emmys, where he won two, and five Golden Globes, including one for Moonlighting.
