The actress has spoken of the friendship that sprung up between her parents and the activist and her wife, Coretta, after they accepted her children to their theater school in Georgia in the years of apartheid.
For a time, Julia Roberts (55) was considered America's sweetheart, a title inherited from one of the greatest silent film actresses, Mary Pickford. After starring in Pretty Woman (1992), one of the female stars who came to earn 20 million dollars per film entered the select circle, her face attracted the most select brands and the gossip press echoed the romances of she.
When practically everything was known about the actress, she herself has just revealed the close friendship that her family had with Martin Luther King Jr, a civil rights legend assassinated in 1968. This has been revealed to the History Talks program presented by Gayle King (67) -not related to the main family- a close friend of Oprah Winfrey (68) and another supporter for the Sussex's in their American misadventures.
It so happens that Julia's parents, Betty Lou and Walter Grady Roberts, were well-known playwrights and actors based in Decatur (Georgia, United States) where they founded an acting school for children. In the 1960s, racial segregation in the country was quite effervescent, which is why many blacks were continually rejected in schools.
