Georgia and Harrison Ford in January 2010. (Photo: Jim Spellman/WireImage)
Speaking from the heart. Harrison Ford shed his tough-guy exterior as he came close to tears while attending an event in support of epilepsy research in NYC on Monday, March 7. The reason? His daughter, Georgia.
The Star Wars actor revealed at the NYU Langone Medical Center’s Find a Cure for Epilepsy and Seizures (FACES) Gala that Georgia, 26, has the condition.
“When you have a loved one who suffers from this disease, it can be devastating,” he told the New York Daily News. “You know how it affects their lives, their future, their opportunities and you want desperately to find mitigation. You want to find a way that they can live a comfortable and effective life.”
During his speech at the gala, held at Pier 60 at Chelsea Piers, Ford, 73, said that Georgia, his daughter with his second wife, the late screenwriter Melissa Mathison, had her first seizure as a child during a sleepover.
Georgia was given medication for acute migraines, but years later suffered another big seizure "on a beach in Malibu, where a Hollywood director found her luckily.”
Speaking from the heart. Harrison Ford shed his tough-guy exterior as he came close to tears while attending an event in support of epilepsy research in NYC on Monday, March 7. The reason? His daughter, Georgia.
The Star Wars actor revealed at the NYU Langone Medical Center’s Find a Cure for Epilepsy and Seizures (FACES) Gala that Georgia, 26, has the condition.
“When you have a loved one who suffers from this disease, it can be devastating,” he told the New York Daily News. “You know how it affects their lives, their future, their opportunities and you want desperately to find mitigation. You want to find a way that they can live a comfortable and effective life.”
During his speech at the gala, held at Pier 60 at Chelsea Piers, Ford, 73, said that Georgia, his daughter with his second wife, the late screenwriter Melissa Mathison, had her first seizure as a child during a sleepover.
Georgia was given medication for acute migraines, but years later suffered another big seizure "on a beach in Malibu, where a Hollywood director found her luckily.”
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