Civil rights leaders the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King paid the hospital bill for Julia Roberts' parents when she was born.
‘Ticket to Paradise’ doesn’t have any surprises, but who needs them when it can lean on the movie star wattage of Julia Roberts and George Clooney?“The King family paid for my hospital bill,” Roberts said in footage of the A+E Networks and History Channel’s HISTORYTalks chat with the “CBS This Morning” host.
“My parents had a theater school in Atlanta called the Actors and Writers Workshop. 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. And my mom was like, ‘Sure, come on over.’ And so they all became friends and they helped us out of a jam,” the Oscar winner said.“Every year,” Julia Roberts says, shaking her head. “Every year it’s: ‘And now she’s back.
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