Julia Roberts reveals Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King paid the hospital invoice for her start

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A beforehand little identified truth about Julia Roberts is now extra extensively identified, due to social media.

It began just lately when a Twitter consumer shared a compilation video of Roberts, writing “Martin Luther King Jr. paying for her start continues to be a little bit identified incontrovertible fact that sends me.”

Just a few days later, in honor of Roberts’ fifty fifth birthday on October 28, guide Zara Rahim tweeted a clip of Roberts sharing the story about her start with journalist Gayle King (no relation to Dr. King).

Roberts defined that Dr. King and his spouse, Coretta Scott King, took care of the hospital bills since her dad and mom couldn’t pay the invoice.

“My dad and mom had a theater college in Atlanta known as the Actors and Writers’ Workshop,” Roberts mentioned. “And sooner or later Coretta Scott King known as my mom and requested if her children may very well be a part of the varsity as a result of they have been having a tough time discovering a spot that will settle for her children.”

Roberts’ mom mentioned certain and thus started the friendship between the civil rights leaders and Walter and Betty Lou Roberts.

That led to the Kings paying for the start of the girl who would go on to turn out to be a world star.

“They helped us out of a jam,” Julia Roberts mentioned.