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- 13 February 2013, 13:56
Bruce Willis convinced acting helped him overcome stutter
Bruce Willis has credited acting with helping him overcome the severe speech impediment he struggled with as a child.
The Hollywood action star reveals he had serious trouble getting his words out during his youth and it wasn't until he tried his hand at acting that he noticed a big difference.
He tells GQ magazine, "The Cub Scout years, I had a terrible stutter. I thought I was handicapped. I couldn't talk at all. I still stutter around some people now.
"But then I did some theater somewhere, probably in high school. And when I memorised words, I didn't stutter, which was just miraculous."
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Kudos to Bruce Willis for going public about this stuttering and helping young people struggling with this speech problem. The website of The Stuttering Foundation, a non-profit charity, has an in-depth article about Willis and his stuttering entitled "Look Who's Talking", which is the title of his famous movie in which he provides the voice. This article about Willis' lifelong strugles with stammering is inspiring: <a href="http://www.stutteringhelp.org/bruce-willis-look-whos-talking" rel='nofollow'>http://www.stutteringhelp.org/bruce-willis-look-whos-talking</a>