This Is Us star Chrissy Metz has a special connection to Operation Smile.
During the Golden Globes, the 36-year-old actress revealed to Et how her nephew inspired her work with the organization, which provides cleft lip and palate surgeries to children in developing countries.
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Et collaborated with Moet & Chandon for Toast for a Cause, where celebs toasted the charity of their choice and Moet generously donated $1,000 to organizations picked by the stars. And for Metz, this meant toasting Operation Smile.
"My nephew was actually born with cleft palate in his lip," Metz explained to Et's Carly Steel. "My sister was a young mom and she just didn't know --she wasn't educated about it."
"I mean obviously we have the facilities here but in other countries we don't and it's just something that we kind of take...
During the Golden Globes, the 36-year-old actress revealed to Et how her nephew inspired her work with the organization, which provides cleft lip and palate surgeries to children in developing countries.
Related: Chrissy Metz Dishes on Knee Injury and Hopes for Her 'This Is Us' Character Ahead of Golden Globes
Et collaborated with Moet & Chandon for Toast for a Cause, where celebs toasted the charity of their choice and Moet generously donated $1,000 to organizations picked by the stars. And for Metz, this meant toasting Operation Smile.
"My nephew was actually born with cleft palate in his lip," Metz explained to Et's Carly Steel. "My sister was a young mom and she just didn't know --she wasn't educated about it."
"I mean obviously we have the facilities here but in other countries we don't and it's just something that we kind of take...
- 1/12/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
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