Harrison Ford revealed that his 26-year-old daughter, Georgia Ford, has epilepsy at an event for NYU Langone Medical Center's Find a Cure for Epilepsy and Seizures (FACES) on Tuesday night.
"She is joining me to thank FACES," Ford told the New York Daily News. "I admire a lot of things about her. I admire her perseverance, her talent, her strength. She's my hero. I love her."
The Langone Medical Center's Dr. Orrin Devinsky and FACES "have been a great service to my family," the Star Wars legend added. "I am grateful for that. So I'm happy to be here."
The 73-year-old actor said that his only daughter -- whose mother is Ford's ex-wife, screenwriter Melissa Mathison -- had her first seizure at a childhood sleepover and was initially diagnosed with acute migraines.
"A few years later she had another big one, this one on a beach in Malibu, where a Hollywood director found her, luckily," he told the crowd during his speech at the event, held at Chelsea Piers in New York City. "I said to myself this is Los Angeles, we have some of the best doctors in the world, they must know what's wrong with her. But nothing was diagnosed as epilepsy."
"She is joining me to thank FACES," Ford told the New York Daily News. "I admire a lot of things about her. I admire her perseverance, her talent, her strength. She's my hero. I love her."
The Langone Medical Center's Dr. Orrin Devinsky and FACES "have been a great service to my family," the Star Wars legend added. "I am grateful for that. So I'm happy to be here."
The 73-year-old actor said that his only daughter -- whose mother is Ford's ex-wife, screenwriter Melissa Mathison -- had her first seizure at a childhood sleepover and was initially diagnosed with acute migraines.
"A few years later she had another big one, this one on a beach in Malibu, where a Hollywood director found her, luckily," he told the crowd during his speech at the event, held at Chelsea Piers in New York City. "I said to myself this is Los Angeles, we have some of the best doctors in the world, they must know what's wrong with her. But nothing was diagnosed as epilepsy."
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