In total, seven people received Chris' organ donations, with most of them in the same dire straits as Jorge. While the 2 Hearts true story mainly focuses on Chris' life-saving contribution of his lungs to Jorge, Chris' status as an organ donor actually saved several other people's lives. Jorge and Leslie Bacardi were both involved in the making of 2 Hearts.

Jorge had a slightly different version of their story, claiming that Leslie was rather flirtatious and had presented him with two sets of children's pilot's wings. Leslie was indeed a Pan Am flight attendant when she met Jorge, and in the 2 Hearts true story, he really did ask her to hold his hand to keep him calm as the plane landed. Jorge's love interest Leslie (played by Radha Mitchell from The Shack) was also a real person, and the two remained married in real life up until his passing in 2020, shortly before 2 Hearts' release. Her surname wasn't provided, and little is known about the real Jenn.

They had only begun their courtship the previous October. Sadly, Chris and Jenn hadn't been dating long prior to his death on March 27th, 2008. In the 2 Hearts true story, Chris' college girlfriend was actually named Jenn, not Samantha, as chronicled in his father's book. Much like Chris and Jorge, Tiera Skyovbye's Samantha Peters and Radha Mitchell's Leslie Bolivar are based on real people. (via Gabriel House)Ģ Hearts is just as much about love as it is about heartbreak, and both Chris and Jorge find love in their respective lives before their illnesses take total control. The call that they'd found a match came in March 2008, and within hours, 64-year-old Jorge was rushed into surgery. His only hope of survival was a double lung transplant. In the 2 Hearts true story, it wasn't until he was in his 50s that doctors determined he didn't have cystic fibrosis at all, but a rare genetic condition called primary ciliary dyskinesia. It was a miracle that Jorge survived this misdiagnosis, but as he grew older, it got harder and harder to breathe. Jorge had been born with a lung disease that, at the time, doctors misdiagnosed as cystic fibrosis. One of those people was Jorge Bacardi (played by Adan Canto of the Bruised cast), the scion of the legendary rum dynasty. Chris had registered to be an organ donor when he was just 16, and when he died, his organs were gifted to five people in desperate need. (via Moms) The 2 Hearts true story didn't end there, however. Chris's entire family was by his side, including his parents and both his older brothers, but, tragically, he died just a few days later.

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