The 55-year-old actress tells of the unknown link between her family and that of the late activist and his wife “They paid the bill for my birth,” she narrates in an interview that has moved the networkJulia Roberts has moved social networks for an aspect unknown of her private life: the link between her family and that of Martin Luther King Jr. even before she was born. In an interview last September, which has now gone viral coinciding with her 55th birthday (October 28) , the actress of Pretty Woman and winner of an Oscar for Erin Brockovich revealed that the late activist Martin Luther King Jr. – son of the African-American leader Martin Luther King Sr. – and his wife, Coretta Scott King, paid the hospital bill for his birth. And she explained the beautiful story behind that gesture.Martin Luther King Jr. and her wife, Coretta Scott King (1964) Donaldson CollectionJulia Roberts was born and raised with her brothers, Eric and Lisa, also actors, in Atlanta Georgia). Her parents, Betty Lou Bredemus and Walter Grady Roberts, who were actors and playwrights and divorced in 1971, opened their own acting school for children in her hometown called Actors & Writers Workshop in the 1960s. Martin Luther King Jr. asked if his children could attend. “In the ’60s, there weren’t little black kids interacting with white kids in acting school,” said Julia Roberts in an interview with Gayle King for History Channel’s History Talks. they had trouble getting into many schools in the southern state, so when Julia’s parents welcomed the King children with open arms, the couple was moved and seemed tremendously grateful. The journalist called the decision of Roberts’ parents as “extraordinary” because people did not see “black children interacting with white children in acting school” at that time. That is why when Betty and Walter gave birth to Julia [Roberts] in 1967 and had difficulty paying medical bills, the actress says that the political figure and his wife helped them financially. “The King family paid my hospital bills. My parents couldn’t pay the hospital bill,” Julia told Gayle King. Julia Roberts’ father taught King’s daughter how to act he was the acting coach of Martin and Coretta’s first daughter, Yolanda Luther King, who also became an actress appearing in such films as Fluke, Ghosts of Mississippi, Drive By: A Love Story, Funny Valentines, and The Secret Path, among others . The activist who died in 2007 also had difficulties in school due to the color of her skin, and even a member of the Ku Klux Klan ‘blew up’ a car outside the theater while performing in a play in 1965, in which played the romantic interest of a white actor. When the Kings learned that Julia Roberts’s parents were having trouble dealing with the medical bills for the birth of their daughter in 1976, they did not hesitate to help in exchange for the kindness and courage with the one that the parents of the actress had treated her family two years ago. The interview is having a great impact after Zara Rahim, the strategic adviser to former President Barack Obama, shared a fragment on her Twitter account. Martin and Coretta’s youngest daughter, Bernice King, also tweeted that part of the interview, “grateful that Julia Roberts shared this story with Gayle King and that so many people have been in awe of her. I know the story well, but I am moved to remember the generosity and influence of my parents.”