Demi Moore Says Bruce Willis’ Condition Remains ‘Stable,’ Talks of ‘Great Loss’ and ‘Beauty’ in Being by His Side

Demi Moore is giving an update on Bruce Willis’ health.

The Substance actress spoke with Christiane Amanpour for an interview on CNN that aired Thursday, Dec. 5, about her ex-husband, who was previously diagnosed with aphasia that progressed to frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

“Given the givens, he’s in a very stable place at the moment,” said Moore, 62. “And I’ve shared this before, but I really mean this so sincerely: It’s so important for anybody who’s dealing with this to really meet them where they’re at.”

“And from that place, there is such loving and joy,” she added.

Moore, who was married to Willis, 69, from 1987 to 2000, also told Amanpour that the situation is “very difficult” and “not what I would wish upon anyone,” including a feeling of “great loss.”

“But there is also great beauty and gifts that can come out of it,” the Now and Then actress added.

Willis and Moore share three daughters — Rumer, 36, Scout , 33, and Tallulah, 30 — while the Die Hard actor is also dad to two younger daughters with wife Emma Heming Willis: Mabel, 12, and Evelyn, 10.

Addressing their supportive joint dynamic with Amanpour, 66, Moore said, “That has been very important to me even from when Bruce and I separated and divorced, is the recognition that we’re a family, and we’ll always be a family, just in a different form.”

“And that form may kind of evolve and change, and there is a way in which we can all be in that form,” she added. “And I’m grateful, ’cause it’s not just me — it has to require everybody to be coming together. And it’s lovely.”

Speaking exclusively to PEOPLE at the 2024 Gotham Awards on Monday, Dec. 2, Moore also said she has grown to have more self-acceptance over the years, revealing that one of her children also consciously chooses to walk down the same path.

“My middle daughter Scout, in many of our conversations, she kind of succinctly put it. She said, ‘I want to quit wasting time focusing on all that I’m not, when I could be celebrating all that I am,’ ” Moore recalled at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.

The G.I Jane star’s words came after she opened up to PEOPLE about her journey with aging.

“I was finding things that weren’t good enough … and so my relationship with it now is much more in a joyous acceptance,” she explained, adding, “I mean, of course, there’s things that you go, ‘I wish that was not that way.’ But in terms of the whole, I see myself in the fullness of who I am as opposed to just the external idea of who I am.”