Julia Roberts: Martin Luther King paid for the hospital when I was born

Julia Roberts revealed that Martin Luther King paid the hospital bill on the day of his birth, a year before the civil rights leader was murdered, as his family couldn't afford it.

CNN reports it.

    The Hollywood star recounted that Martin Luther King's wife Coretta Scott one day called her parents, who had a theater school in Atlanta called Actors and Writers, to ask if their children could get in "because they had a hard time getting in. find a place that would accept them. "

Roberts' mother accepted immediately and a friendship with the Kings was born ever since.

So when the actress was born on October 28, 1967, the leader paid the hospital bill.

"They helped us out of a difficult situation," said the Oscar winner for 'Erin Brockovich'.

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