Julia Roberts said that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, took care of the hospital expenses when she was born since her parents couldn't pay the bill.
Julia Roberts, pictured here in Los Angeles on Oct. 17, recently revealed Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King paid the hospital bill for her birth. It all started recently whenA few days later, in honor of Roberts' 55th birthday on October 28,
consultant Zara Rahim tweeted a clip of Roberts sharing the story about her birth with journalist Gayle KingRoberts explained that Dr. King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, took care of the hospital expenses since her parents couldn't pay the bill. "My parents had a theater school in Atlanta called the Actors and Writers' Workshop," Roberts said. "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 her kids."
Roberts' mother said sure and thus began the friendship between the civil rights leaders and Walter and Betty Lou Roberts. That led to the Kings paying for the birth of the woman who would go on to become an international star.
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