Popular Hollywood actress Kristen Bell decided to kiss 2024 goodbye by performing a beautiful act of kindness, donating $100,000 to individuals who needed help paying for their medical bills. If you’re going to be a liberal who complains about how things are in this country, this is how you do real, genuine activism. Put your money where your mouth is and impact people’s lives.
A report from Breitbart revealed that the “Frozen” star got a message on social media platform Instagram from a user known as Quentin Quarantino that discussed her providing help for those who have been negatively impacted by what the person called the “broken healthcare system” here in the U.S.
Quarantino, whose real name is Tommy Marcus, initially suggested that Bell simply share one health-related GoFundMe page per day in an effort to raise awareness of others’ struggles and get the public to donate.
“I had this idea to harness thus public energy around the broken healthcare system by sharing one health related GoFundMe page every day for a week+ and changing the life of one family per day,” Quarantino stated in his message to the actress, to which Bell responded, “Love it. Absolutely.”
But later, after realizing that one of the GoFundMe pages needed another $4,300 in donations to reach its goal, the Forgetting Sarah Marshall star decided to just donated it herself.
“I read the story and it nearly brought me to tears,” Bell said to Quarantino in a follow-up message, also stating, “I just gave the remaining amount it needed. We need to do more things like this, the world needs it.” She then decided she would go even further.
“This was amazing — but I wanna do more,” Bell said in yet another follow-up message to the Instagram user. “How can I give $100,000 to people who need it for medical bills? I want to make sure we do it in the best way — how do we do it?”
Quarantino replied, suggesting, “How about this — every fundraiser I post, once it hits half the goal, you close it out with the second half until we reach $100K spent on your end.” “YES!! TOMMY LET’S DO IT!” Bell exclaimed.
The actress then put her money where her mouth is, donating over $20,000 to help a third-grader fight leukemia, causing the GoFundMe page to reach its goal. In a second example, Bell sent another GoFundMe page to its goal by donating nearly $25,000 to a man who is also battling leukemia.
If every actor in Hollywood was generous and took on projects like this with all of the millions they have, the impact it would have on our society and culture would be unfathomable. Be the change you want to see in the world around you. The government would never be able to provide this level of help and support to those in need if they were running our healthcare system.
Instead, they would poach the vast majority of the money, skim it off the top, and those in need would still not receive the help they require. Let’s hope Bell’s generosity rubs off on others in the industry.
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