Fans of actress Julia Roberts resurfaced a surprising fact about her — that Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King paid the hospital bill for her birth. The actress explains how her parents started a friendship with MLK and his family in the 1960s.
It all started recently when a Twitter user shared a compilation video of Roberts, writing “Martin Luther King Jr. paying for her birth is still a little known fact that sends me.” A 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 King . Roberts explained that Dr.
“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.
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