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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Andrew Nuttall & Aaliyah Rugg

Hollywood star Ryan Reynolds steps in to help young girl with aggressive brain tumour

Hollywood stars made a huge donation to help a family "living a nightmare" as they desperately raise funds to help prolong their daughter's life.

The ECHO previously reported that young Aria Hodgkiss was diagnosed with an aggressive tumour last year on what was her third birthday. Her parents were given the news by doctors that their little girl had only 12 months to live and said "it felt like the end of the world".

The family, from Wrexham in North Wales, launched a fundraiser in the hopes of them raising funds for alternative treatment to help extend her life. It came after parents, Melanie and Carl, were told their daughter may not live beyond her fourth birthday.

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