Dec 31, 2024
Kristen Bell has “unfrozen” her assets, teaming up with Instagram influencer and star Tommy Marcus, aka Quentin Quarantino, to donate $100,000 toward paying people’s medical debt. Initially she agreed to promote one health-related GoFundMe page a day after Marcus sent her a DM asking for her help, TMZ reported. Upon reading some of the hard-luck stories, Bell’s heart melted, and in true Princess Anna of Annendale style she gave $100,000. “This was amazing,” she wrote to Marcus, who posted screen shots of their conversation. “But I wanna do more — 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??” In a heartwarming message exchange, the two worked out a system for her to donate the second half of each fundraising appeal once the first half had been raised. “For example, the next one needs around $50k raised, so once it hits $25k from followers, you donate $25k and we move on to the next one?” Marcus wrote. “YES!! TOMMY LETS DO IT!” was Bell’s exuberant reply. In a heartwarming message exchange, the two worked out a system for her to donate the second half of each fund-raising appeal once the first half had been raised. And do it they did, raising enough money in just 20 minutes to help a family fund a third-grade girl’s leukemia treatment. They then did the same for a man also suffering from the same cancer. Bell’s response was more than Marcus could have imagined. “I first reached out to Kristen with the meager hope she might share one of my fundraising posts, like she frequently does,” the influencer told People. “I never imagined she’d respond with a $100,000 pledge to help me and the QQ community achieve change — that she’d respond not with a quick answer, but a real question: How can we use this money to do good?” Both collaborators acknowledged that they could not fix a broken health care system, but are determined to operate within it to help save lives. “Something needs to be done, and this is my something,” Bell told People. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Quentin Quarantino (@quentin.quarantino) The “Frozen” actress joins several celebs who have doled out money to the medically needy. They include John Oliver, who famously paid $60,000 to buy and forgive $15 million in medical debt in 2016, and philanthropist Mackenzie Scott, who has donated three times to the nonprofit organization Undue Medical Debt (formerly RIP Medical Debt), the same organization Oliver worked through. More than 100 million adults in the U.S. are saddled with a collective total of $220 billion in medical debt, according to the organization. With News Wire Services
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