Did you ever know this about Julia Roberts?
It may sound at first like MadLibs, but it’s apparently true. The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King helped pay the hospital bill forThis is, actually, not new news, but if you never heard it before don’t feel too bad. The unearthed story has been blowing minds online for about a week and went double-viral on her recent birthday.
“Her research is very good,” Roberts mugged to the crowd, when King prompted her for the story. “The King family paid for my hospital bills.”family,” Gayle King corrected. “Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta—did you guys know that about Julia Roberts?” the interviewer then asked the crowd, who all murmured “no.”
Roberts explained that while her parents couldn’t pay for the hospital bill, they did have a theater school in Atlanta. At the time, Coretta was having a rough time finding a local school that would accept her children, it being the South in the mid-1960s. But when Roberts’s mother took her call, she said, “sure, come on over.” As such, everyone became friends, and, when a financial emergency came, Julia's parents were helped out of a jam.
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