June 14, 2023, published at 5:00 a.m. ET
Heath infested Bruce Willis‘ daughter Tallulahmental health struggles tear their family apart, RadarOnline.com has learned. Tortured Tallulah admitted she endured a terrifying battle with anorexia after her fiancé Dillon Bus dumped her less than three months after Bruce revealed his battle with a degenerative brain condition.
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Her condition did not go unnoticed by her demented father. “Bruce watched her languish and it only made his own problems worse,” a source said.
Insiders told RadarOnline.com that Bruce’s family was concerned that watching his beloved 29-year-old daughter battle depression and anorexia — leaving her at a life-threatening 84 pounds — would be too much for the soon descending That hard icon as the 68-year-old struggles with frontotemporal dementia.
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“Bruce was devastated when he saw Tallulah suffer,” an insider snapped. Their family was reportedly extra careful about exposing Bruce to his daughter’s suffering.
“It got to the point where the family thought it would be better if they weren’t together at all,” the insider said.
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Reeling from Dillion’s rejection, Tallulah revealed that she checked herself into a hospital, where she was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.
A doctor – who has not treated Bruce or Tallulah – agreed that the couple may not be healthy until young Willis works on herself.
“Tallulah’s mental state and that of her father are like oil and water,” says Dr. Carole Lieberman, a forensic psychiatrist. “They’ve become bad for each other’s mental health.”
RadarOnline.com has reached out to Bruce’s representative for comment.
In a personal essay for FashionTallulah shared how her struggles with body dysmorphia spiraled out of control when she began taking medication for ADHD.
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“I felt smart for the first time,” Tallulah said of taking her meds, “but I also started to enjoy the appetite-suppressing side effect of the meds. I saw a way to banish the clumsy adolescent in favor of a fickle elf. And like so many people with eating disorders, my sense of myself became confused.
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“There’s an unhealthy ecstasy about the beginning of rapid weight loss,” she explained. “People say ‘Oh wow!’ And then it quickly turns into, “Are you okay?” My friends and family were terrified and I turned it down.
“By the spring of 2022, I weighed about 84 pounds,” Tallulah recalls. “I was always ice cold. I called mobile IV teams to come to my house, and I couldn’t walk in my Los Angeles neighborhood for fear of not having a place to sit down and catch my breath.
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Her family finally stepped in and got Tallulah the help she needed by checking her into a Texas facility.
“I realized that what I wanted more than harmony with my body was harmony with my family – to stop worrying them, to make my sisters and my parents frivolous. An emaciated body wouldn’t do that. For years I had felt the weight of people worrying about me, and it brought me to my knees,” she said.
Tallulah said she is determined to rebuild her relationship with her family, especially Bruce.
“Recovery is probably lifelong, but I now have the tools to be present in all areas of my life, and especially in my relationship with my father,” she told Vogue in June.
“In the past I was so afraid of being destroyed by grief, but finally I feel like I can show up and be trusted. I can enjoy that time, hold my father’s hand and feel it’s great,’ Tallulah continued. “That whole thing about loving yourself before you can love someone else — it’s real.”