Julia Roberts Opens Up About Martin Luther King Jr. covered the hospital bill for her birth
Roberts stated that her parents were good friends with the civil rights leader and his wife, whose children enrolled in their theater school and were so targeted.
Julia Roberts said in a recent interview with CBS News reporter Gayle King for the History Channel that late civil rights advocates Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, who were close friends of her parents, covered the hospital cost for her delivery.
According to Insider, Roberts informed Gayle King, "The King family paid for my hospital cost... Martin Luther King and Coretta."
Julia Roberts said in a recent interview with CBS News reporter Gayle King for the History Channel that late civil rights advocates Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, who were close friends of her parents, covered the hospital cost for her delivery.
According to Insider, Roberts informed Gayle King, "The King family paid for my hospital cost... Martin Luther King and Coretta."
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After Yolanda, the oldest King daughter, was cast in a play in which she kissed Philip DePoy, a white actor, who recounted the horrifying incidence of domestic terrorism in an essay for ARTS ATL in 2013, the Ku Klux Klan blew up a vehicle outside the school.
"I kissed a female, and a Buick exploded 10 yards away," DePoy wrote. "... The girl's name was Yolanda King, the daughter of Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King Jr. Yolanda was not Caucasian, although I was. That was the source of the problem. I'm not sure who owned the Buick, but I know who destroyed it."
When her parents couldn't afford to pay the hospital bill for her birth on Oct. 28, 1967, in Smyrna, Georgia, Roberts said the Kings "helped us out of a problem." According to The New York Times, she never ceased speaking out against racial injustice, telling Rolling Stone in 1990 that her community was "horribly racist" and a "living nightmare."
"You didn't have small Black children mingling with little White children in an acting school, and your parents were like, 'Come on in,'" King exclaimed in reaction to Roberts' anecdote. "I think that's incredible, because it creates the framework for who you are."
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