Celebrities to the rescue
Robin McFadden, a mother of three, was recently checking out at a Georgia grocery store when she realized she was $25 short.
Then she heard a voice behind her: “How much is she short?” It was comedian Foxworthy with his credit card in hand. Foxworthy made up the difference and took a selfie with McFadden.
See other celebrities who have saved the day with acts of selflessness and heroism.
Jennifer Lawrence
When a woman collapsed outside of Lawrence’s California apartment complex in 2012, the actress ran to her aid and waited with her until paramedics arrived.
Tom Hanks
“Lauren! I found your Student ID in the park. If you still need it my office will get to you,” Hanks tweeted when he found a student’s Fordham University ID in a New York park in 2015.
Lauren and her ID were reunited shortly thereafter.
Ryan Gosling
Laurie Penny, a journalist from London, wasn’t looking the right way when crossing the street in New York, but Gosling grabbed her right before she would have been hit by a taxi, Penny tweeted in 2012.
Heidi Klum
Klum pulled her son and two nannies from the ocean in Hawaii in 2013 after they were swept up in a riptide, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Zoe Saldana
Saldana rushed to the scene of a car wreck outside of Sony Pictures Studios in California in 2012 to pull the victim out of the car and call first responders, according to CBS Los Angeles.
Taylor Swift
When Swift found out that the 13-month-old nephew of one of her dancers was battling cancer in 2015, she donated $50,000 to a GoFundMe fundraiser for the little boy, according to ET.
The pop star has also surprised several fans battling the disease with notes, visits and donations.
Jamie Foxx
Foxx pulled a man from the wreckage of a truck that had flipped and burst into flames outside of the actor’s California home in 2016.
Brad Pitt
When an extra slipped on set while filming a zombie-invasion scene for “World War Z” in 2011, Pitt scooped her up and saved her from being trampled, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Blake Shelton
Shelton plucked four young men from an Oklahoma mudslide after they accidentally got stuck in it in 2015, according to ET.
Katy Perry
Perry wrote an inspiring song for Orlando shooting survivor Tony Marrero, and offered to pay for his first year of film school in 2016, according to ET.
Matthew McConaughey
McConaughey gave a woman mouth-to-mouth resuscitation after she suffered a seizure at the Toronto Film Festival in 2001, according to The Guardian.
Zac Efron
An Efron fan was chasing the actor down for a selfie in Malibu in 2016 when he dropped and shattered his phone. Efron gave him the money to buy a new phone, according to ET.
Patrick Demsey
Dempsey pulled a teen from a car that had flipped several times and ended up in the actor’s California front yard in 2012, TMZ reported at the time.
Hugh Jackman
Jackman pulled his son and another swimmer to shore after they got caught up in a strong rip tide on Australia’s Bondi beach in 2016, according to The Guardian.
Mila Kunis
When a man who worked in Kunis’ California house suffered a seizure in 2012, the actress ran to his side and turned his head so he wouldn’t choke, TMZ reported at the time.
Dustin Hoffman
Hoffman alerted paramedics when a man jogging past him suffered cardiac arrest in London in 2012, according to BBC.
Sandra Bullock
When an extra on the New Orleans set of “Our Brand Is Crisis” collapsed from heat stroke in 2014, Bullock rushed to her side with water and fanned her until paramedics arrived, according to TMZ.
Harrison Ford
Ford has twice taken his helicopter on rescue missions. During the most recent one, in 2001, he found a 13-year-old Boy Scout who got lost while hiking in Wyoming’s backcountry.
Clint Eastwood
Eastwood performed the Heimlich maneuver on a man who had choked on a piece of cheese at a California party before the PGA Tour in 2014, according to ESPN.
T.I.
In 2010, T.I. heard that a man was on the ledge of a Georgia building contemplating suicide, so the rapper recorded a video message that police showed the man, according to Rolling Stone.
“Nothing in life is worth taking your life,” T.I. said in the message. The man eventually backed away from the ledge.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Schwarzenegger was on vacation in Hawaii in 2004 when he spotted a swimmer in distress. The actor helped the man, who was suffering from cramps, get back to shore, according to The Telegraph.
Dr. Mehmet Oz
Oz rushed to the scene to help after a cab in New York jumped the curb and severed a woman’s leg below her knee in 2013.