Harrison Ford's frank confessions about his daughter's illness

73-year-old American actor Harrison Ford recently visited an open event "FACES", an organization that successfully fights against epilepsy and develops medicines for this ailment.

The purpose of my life is to cure a daughter

Perhaps, for the first time in many years, the actor spoke so openly about his daughter's illness. "Georgia, which since childhood suffers from epileptic seizures, must be cured. And I will do my best so that the medicine can be found. The first attack of the girl happened as a child at night at home. It was then that the doctors diagnosed this terrible diagnosis. A few years later the disease again made itself felt, and this was one of the most terrible days in my life. Georgia rested on the beach in Malibu, and she had a fit, the doctors could not help her for a long time, and we lost sight of her and did not know about what happened, "said Ford to the press with tears in his eyes. Then he slightly opened the veil over what his 25-year-old daughter was doing. As it turned out, the girl chose her profession of an actress and has already starred in several films: "True Story" and "Visitor". According to Harrison, his girl is very talented, but the disease does not reveal her potential to the full.

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Proper treatment is the key to success

After the news of his daughter's illness, Harrison Ford, always tried to support medical development in this area, allocating a lot of money for them. In addition, in his opinion, the family was very lucky with the doctor Orinin DAVINSKY, whom they had made friends with for many years. It was he who could appoint Georgia the right treatment, which lasted almost 8 years. After the passed course the girl feels much better.