More than 30 years of career in Hollywood, world fame, yet this anecdote was still unknown to the general public. On the occasion of Julia Roberts’ birthday, October 28, her consultant, Zara Rahim posted on Twitter an excerpt from an interview previously released by the actress. Interviewed by TV host Gayle King on September 24thtells the particular circumstances of her birth and the story that binds her to a historical figure, who is none other than Martin Luther King Jr.
A friendship born in a context of racial segregation
“The King family paid the hospital bill after I was born”, says Julia Roberts. At that time, in 1967, racism and segregation still plagued the United States. Four years earlier, Martin Luther King had already delivered “I have dream”, his speech that marked history. Pretty Woman’s heroine explains that at that time her parents had opened a theater school in Atlanta called “The Actors and Writers Workshop”. ” One day Coretta Scott King (wife of Martin Luther King) called my mother to ask if her children could join the school, because she couldn’t find a place that would accept them, says the actress. “Sure, come on,” my mother replied. The Roberts and the Kings then became friends, followed by the birth of Julia, whose parents could not afford hospital bills, which were eventually paid for by Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King. “They got us out of trouble,” concludes the actress, who celebrated her 55th birthday this year.
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