“I’ve known that something was wrong for a long time,” Tallulah admits. “I sometimes took it personally. He had had two babies with my stepmother, Emma Heming Willis, and I thought he’d lost interest in me.” (via toofab)
She then got treatment, after her family stepped in, and learned of a new diagnosis: Borderline Personality Disorder. With new tools from treatment she was able to get back to a healthy weight and began to confront what was going on with her father.
She notes in the essay that she had stored every voicemail from Bruce on a hard drive, admitting that she is"trying to document, to build a record for the day when he isn’t there to remind me of him and of us." She writes hopefully near the end of the piece that at the moment"he still knows who I am and lights up when I enter the room."
"I keep flipping between the present and the past when I talk about Bruce: he is, he was, he is, he was," Tallulah writes."That’s because I have hopes for my father that I’m so reluctant to let go of. I’ve always recognized elements of his personality in me, and I just know that we’d be such good friends if only there were more time."
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