Amy Schumer wants to #KissGoodbyeToMS for her dad, Gordon
Schumer.
Why do you want to Kiss Goodbye to MS?
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My personal response:
For my beautiful
wife.
I love her with all
my heart and I would take the disease from her and carry it myself – in a
heartbeat!
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Meet
Amy Schumer - Comedian, Writer, Actor and MS Activist Extraordinaire
July
17, 2015
Amy and
her dad, Gordon Schumer
Amy
Schumer is one of the most popular and admired comedic personalities on the
scene today. She is presently best known as the creator, star, writer, and
executive producer of the Comedy Central show Inside Amy Schumer. She is also a
2015 recipient of the Time 100 Most Influential Artists with her show receiving
both a Peabody Award and a Critic’s Choice Award.
What
also makes Amy Schumer very special to everyone impacted by multiple sclerosis
is that her father Gordon Schumer has MS and currently resides in an assisted
living facility. In fact, Amy wrote and stars in a funny yet touching film that
opens July 17, TRAINWRECK, which draws on her life as a child with a parent who
has MS. Amy credits her dad for shaping her sense of humor, which has provided
her great strength when faced with adversity, which included her parents’
divorce when she was a teen.
Shares
Amy in a recent interview, “I love to laugh. I seek laughter all the time. I
think that’s something that also comes with having a sick parent is you don’t
know what’s going to happen and so I’ll be, like, ‘I’m psyched my legs still
work, and I want to, like, experience all I can and make as many memories as I
can.”
Amy is
deeply committed to the MS movement and support of the Society’s efforts to
help people with MS live their best lives while we strive to end MS forever.
Most recently, she and her director, friend Judd Apatow helped to raise over
$176,000 through the TRAINWRECK Comedy Tour event held in New York City. She
continues to leverage the promotion of the film with the help of Universal
Trainwreck and www.CrowdRise.com/Trainwreck to raise funds to support the
Society, a site where fans gathered to donate for a chance to win a VIP
experience that includes two tickets to the New York Premiere.
Amy, a
New York City resident, has also become an Honorary Board Member of the New
York City-Southern New York Chapter.
Learn
more about how MS has influenced Amy Schumer’s life and career at:
About
Multiple Sclerosis:
Multiple
sclerosis is an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous
system that disrupts the flow of information within the brain, and between the
brain and body. Symptoms range from numbness and tingling to blindness and
paralysis. The progress, severity and specific symptoms of MS in any one person
cannot yet be predicted, but advances in research and treatment are leading to
better understanding and moving us closer to a world free of MS. Most people
with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50, with at least two to three
times more women than men being diagnosed with the disease. MS affects more
than 2.3 million people worldwide.
In
support of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) research:
Never
give up!
