Kate Winslet has donated £17,000 to a mom dealing with a sky-high power invoice to maintain her cerebral palsy-hit daughter alive on life assist.
Carolynne Hunter, from Tillicoultry in Scotland, was warned by Clackmannanshire Council that her invoice may rise from £6,500 to £17,000 subsequent yr.
Her daughter Freya, 12, has extreme cerebral palsy and depends on receiving oxygen for continual respiration issues.
Miss Hunter mentioned she was overwhelmed when the Titanic actress, 47, intervened upon listening to their battle reported on BBC Scotland.
Winslet donated £17,000 to the household’s GoFundMe web page and contacted Miss Hunter to want them properly.
Miss Hunter, 49, mentioned: ‘Our journey as a household has been very traumatic and I simply really feel completed at this level in my life.
Carolynne Hunter, from Tillicoultry in Scotland, was warned by Clackmannanshire Council that her invoice may rise from £6,500 to £17,000 subsequent yr
Miss Hunter mentioned she was overwhelmed when the Titanic actress, 47, intervened upon listening to their battle reported on BBC Scotland
Her daughter Freya, 12, has extreme cerebral palsy and depends on receiving oxygen for continual respiration issues
‘Once I heard in regards to the cash I simply burst into tears – I believed it wasn’t even actual. I am nonetheless considering “Is that this actual?”‘
The Hunters stay in a big council home in Tillicoultry, which isn’t power environment friendly, so there’s house for Freya’s tools.
At current it prices them £6,500 a yr to run the equipment and warmth the house, although Miss Hunter mentioned she had turned the heating off in most rooms to save cash.
Though she works full-time within the third sector on a average wage, she doesn’t obtain the identical assist as these on low incomes.
Miss Hunter additionally worries that potential winter energy cuts within the occasion of decreased gasoline provide, a results of Russia’s battle in Ukraine, may put Freya’s care in danger.
She mentioned: ‘We’re nonetheless freezing and we’re not even at minus temperatures but. I’m nipping on the employees to not put the heating on until it’s a necessity.
‘The council have put photo voltaic panels as much as assist however I do not assume it will assist with the invoice.’
Miss Winslet’s extraordinary generosity means the household will be capable of go into subsequent yr figuring out they will afford the life assist Freya so desperately wants.
Miss Hunter, 49, mentioned: ‘Once I heard in regards to the cash I simply burst into tears – I believed it wasn’t even actual. I am nonetheless considering “Is that this actual?”‘
Winslet donated £17,000 to the household’s GoFundMe web page and contacted Miss Hunter to want them properly
Miss Winslet, who lives in a quiet village in West Sussex, is estimated to be value round £50million
The star additionally bought in contact to want the household properly. Miss Hunter added: ‘I did not communicate out to get donations however on the similar time I’ve to guarantee that Freya is OK.
‘I’ll be helped however what about everybody else? I needed the Authorities to pay for it and do the correct factor – it should not must be a celeb that steps in.’
Miss Winslet, who lives in a quiet village in West Sussex, is estimated to be value round £50million.
She married Edward Abel Smith, a nephew of enterprise tycoon Richard Branson, in 2012. The couple have one youngster collectively, Bear Blaze, who was born in 2013.
The star additionally has two different kids from earlier marriages.
Her eldest, Mia, was born in 2000 throughout her first marriage, to movie director Jim Threapleton. She additionally had a baby, Joe, in 2003 with second husband, film director Sam Mendes.
Miss Winslet is patron of the Household Haven, a charity shaped to assist deprived and weak households in Gloucestershire.