In honor of Julia Roberts’ 55th birthday, fans are recirculating the story about her connection to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King.

Roberts, who celebrated her birthday on Oct. 28, told Gayle King last month about how the civil rights leaders helped her parents.

In the video, King asked Roberts to explain what happened the day she was born and reveal who paid for her hospital bill.

“The King family paid for my hospital bills,” Roberts said.

Roberts said that her parents, Betty Lou Bredemus and Walter Grady Roberts, could not afford to pay the hospital bill after she was born in 1967.

“My parents had a theater school in Atlanta called the Actors and Writers Workshop,” she shared. “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.’”

She added, “And so they just all became friends and they helped us out of a jam.”

Mark Heim is a sports reporter for The Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Mark_Heim.