Don Johnson opens up about friendship with Bruce Willis

Don Johnson sat down for an interview with Entertainment Tonight for the premiere of his ABC medical series, Doctor Odyssey.

Opening up about his long term relationship with friend, Bruce Willis, he said, "We're best of friends and he's having a little bit of a struggle right now, and I take this moment to send him love.”

Willis' family revealed back in 2023 that he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia after being diagnosed with aphasia the previous year.

Johnson also recalled advocating to get his friend a role on the very first season of the hit series Miami Vice, before he rose to fame with Moonlighting.

"It was his first episodic TV, before Moonlighting," he explained, "And I knew him from New York, and I'd hang out with him and he was funny."

"So I called our casting director on Miami Vice and I said, 'You know, there's a guy over there and I think he's a struggling actor, and you should bring him in and read him because he's really funny and I think he'd be good,'” the actor added.

Recalling his audition, Johnson said, "She brought him in and she read him and she cast him for the wife-beater.”

The Miami Vice star explained that at the time trying to help his friend out "wasn't that far" of a stretch.

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