Seven-year-old Max Page, the young actor best known for being "Little Darth Vader" in , is having open heart surgery on Thursday.
Max has a role on CBS-TV's The Young and Restless soap opera. Network spokeswoman Elise Bromberg that he will be operated on at Children's Hospital Los Angeles to replace his pulmonary valve and repair a hole in his heart.
Deutsch LA, the ad agency, is an ambassador for the hospital "and he's trying to raise money for other kids who suffer from heart problems." The hospital has that links to donation pages for kids who are patients there, including Max.
Max's mother, Jennifer Page, sent Deutsch LA an email in which she says that after being told that the time had come to have the surgery "initially, Max was crying and repeating how scared how he was." But later, he said "Mom I don't have a choice. I have to go through it. I don't like it and it's still scary — but I have to. So I think I might as well go through it with a good attitude."
As many are surely thinking, may the force be with you, Max.
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