Bruce Willis is relatively 'incommunicative,' 'not totally verbal' after dementia diagnosis, friend reveals

Bruce Willis' friend Glenn Gordon Caron is giving an update on the actor's health since his dementia diagnosis, admitting he is "not totally verbal."

"My sense is the first one to three minutes he knows who I am," Glenn Gordon Caron told the New York Post of his interactions with Willis. "He’s not totally verbal; he used to be a voracious reader — he didn’t want anyone to know that — and he’s not reading now. All those language skills are no longer available to him, and yet he’s still Bruce." Caroline Thayer is an entertainment writer for Fox News Digital. Follow Caroline Thayer on Twitter at @carolinejthayer. Story tips can be sent to caroline.thayer@fox.com.

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"I have tried very hard to stay in his life," Caron says, explaining he tries to see the actor on a monthly basis. "He’s an extraordinary person. The thing that makes [his disease] so mind-blowing is [that] if you’ve ever spent time with Bruce Willis, there is no one who had any more joie de vivre than he. He loved life and … just adored waking up every morning and trying to live life to its fullest."