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Julia Roberts reveals Martin Luther King Jr. paid hospital bills for her birth
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31 Oct 2022, 09:07
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Hollywood icon Julia Roberts has explained how the hospital bills for her birth were paid by none other than Martin Luther King Jr.
The American Baptist minister and activist was one of the most prominent people in the civil rights movement before his assassination in 1968, and Roberts has spoken about how he and his wife, Coretta Scott King, became friends with her parents.
Roberts was talking to Gayle King for A+E Networks and History Channel's HISTORYTalks in Washington, D.C. when she unveiled the interesting fact.
The Pretty Woman and Erin Brockovich star said: “My parents had a theatre school in Atlanta called the Actors and Writers Workshop, and one day Coretta Scott King called my mother and asked if her kids could be part of the school because they were having a hard time finding a place that would accept their kids”
Roberts said that her mum agreed and they became friends. Having confirmed that the King family stepped in when her parents were having a hard time paying the bills when their daughter was born, she added: “They helped us out of a jam.”
The world-famous actor was born on 28th October 1967, meaning that she has just turned 55. On her birthday, she posted a picture of herself drinking from a coffee with balloons behind her. The caption read: “Feeling the love and magic on my 55th Birthday! My cup runneth over"
Julia Roberts is currently starring alongside George Clooney in new rom-com Ticket to Paradise. When asked about returning to the beloved genre on the red carpet at the World Premiere last month, she told virginradio.co.uk and other press that it was “so great” to get back to the classics.
Both Roberts and her co-star Clooney both said they were “lucky” to be able to share the screen again once more. You can read more about what they said at the World Premiere here.
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