It has been awhile since I have had a kindness to report, but I think the wait was worthwhile. This is a great one. This one involves an actress who I had no idea was capable of such great lengths of kindness. She mostly stays out of the limelight. She has had a nice career as a model and actress, but it has never been spectacular, although she can look pretty spectacular at times. I think her name puts her higher on the list than she otherwise would be. That and her choices for significant others who have been B list actors. She is probably a C+, but with all the bonus points is a B-.
Anyway, the other day, our actress was with her child/ren and had just put said child/ren into the car when a woman approached her. At first the actress thought the woman wanted an autograph and when it was obvious the actress was not recognized by the woman she thought it was someone about to ask her for money. Wrong on both counts. The woman had just got off a bus about five minutes earlier. In her haste to get off the bus she had left behind her purse. A big purse filled with what she called her "life."
She had no car and no phone and had no way of catching up with the bus. Other people had apparently blown her off and not done anything to help. Our actress agreed to help in a second. She got the woman in the car while they started to follow the path of the bus. At the same time the actress handed her cell phone over to the woman who then tried to call and have the transit authority tell the bus driver what had happened and to watch for her purse. After about ten minutes of serious traffic the pair caught up to a bus on the route who had stopped. The actress literally pulled in front of the bus so it could not move while the woman got out and ran to the bus driver and to look for her purse. Wrong bus. Plus, the bus driver was not willing to help the woman by radioing anyone because he had no idea what bus it was and all he wanted was for the actress to move her car so he could keep going. Back in the car they went and this time there was no traffic and after another 5 or 6 minutes they caught up with another bus. The actress pulled the same trick as before and the woman jumped out and ran to the bus driver who saw the woman and held up the purse. Someone had seen the woman get off the bus and leave behind her purse and handed it to the driver. The woman would not stop shaking or crying or hugging the bus driver. When she finally got off the bus and returned to the actresses' car, the woman expected to just be told to catch a bus back to where she began, but the actress laughed and instead took the woman home. The woman still has no idea who the actress is.
Rebecca Romijn
Thats sweet. Glad this was revealed!
ReplyDeleteSomeone guessed her.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great reveal!
Rebecca? Wow, now that is very nice! Can't say anymore bad things about her.
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad this was revealed. It warms my skeptical, gossip filled heart.
ReplyDeleteThat's incredibly nice and I am really glad it didn't turn into a dangerous situation for her and her children. Talk about giving a stranger the benefit of the doubt.
ReplyDeleteThis can only be known because the actress told the story, right? Hmmm.
ReplyDeleteYay Rebecca! Especially nice in light of yesterday's reveal about what John Stamos did to her...which really shocked me. :-( Cuz I thought he was supposed to be a nice guy.
ReplyDeleteSo who else would know the entire story but the woman involved and RR? And if the woman involved didn't recognize her, doesn't that mean RR is the source for the story?
ReplyDeletemaybe she was just trying to look good to Jerry O'Connel.
ReplyDeleteStill don't like her.
That is really nice! The kindness of strangers...
ReplyDeleteNow would Carmen be that nice?
ReplyDeleteWow. Good looks and compassion too. Lea Bitchelle could learn a thing or two from Rebecca.
ReplyDeleteVery nice thing to do, but I would also be wary of strangers.
ReplyDeleteReally?? I wonder, was this woman attractive ? Rebecca and Stamos were into threesomes with other women, right ??
ReplyDeleteOh man , that was nasty of me. Forget what I wrote. Nice gesture on Rebecca's part !
@Jennifer H. - Sorry! I guess we were typing at the same time.
ReplyDeleteThe story could have come from any of the passengers on the bus, or the respective drivers--just because the woman didn't recognize RR doesn't mean that no one else did.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I'm blind, but what reveal about John Stamos yesterday? I've gone back several times and can't find what you're talking about.
ReplyDeleteShe always seemed like a nice person. Glad to know she really is.
ReplyDeleteKind, but reckless.
ReplyDelete@obitguy - Stamos was having sex with Carmen Electra in a closet at some party. Forget which blind it is.
ReplyDeleteShe probably told her husband that evening and he passed it along to his friends.
ReplyDeleteOr she could have told friends. If I was semi-famous, I would have thought not being recognized was a pretty funny story to tell, particularly since the laugh would be on me that I wasn't famous enough to be recognized immediately.
She might not have told it as a "look how great I am" kind of thing.
I really like this reveal. So nice to see people helping each other out and being kind to one another. Especially hollywood people :)
ReplyDeleteI can bet RR looks pretty average without makeup, Carmen Elecktra on the other hand - stunning barefaced.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I kind of wondered how anyone would have known about this if the women didn't know who RR was, so I'm kind of sceptical
Aw, this is so sweet!
ReplyDeleteHave to disagree Black Cat, Carmen has Amber (teen mom) puff face. I would say without makeup RR is probably still very pretty.
ReplyDeleteWhenever a kindness is done, it's a good thing.
ReplyDeleteSo how did you find out about it? Clearly, you believe you have conversations with Rebecca. LMAO
ReplyDeleteGood for her!
ReplyDeleteI'm a skeptic after what I witnessed and have heard about Becky. This sounds like one of her PR stunts.
ReplyDeleteMajik, the passengers or drivers wouldn't have witnessed all of this play out, only what happened with the very bus they were on, and none of the stuff before or after in RR's car.
ReplyDeleteIf RR did this, that was definitely nice of her, no doubt. The idea that she would tell the story kind of takes some of the modesty out of it, especially if the punchline is that she wasn't recognized. I don't know that I'd recognize her when she's out and about doing daily errands, either.
Well this story would offset the story about how she put her dog to sleep. She got a dog from a rescue organization that stipulated the dog had to be returned to them if there was a problem, but instead she put the dog to sleep. The organization was furious about that and said the dog was perfectly healthy when Becky adopted him.
ReplyDeleteI doubt Romijn chases down a bus for a stranger every day so why wouldn't she tell people? It's a good anecdote.
ReplyDeleteThanks Debutante!
ReplyDeleteDon't know if anybody saw her and her husband Jerry O'Connell on Bravo's show with Andy Cohen called Watch What Happens Live but the two of them were amazing and really down to earth!
ReplyDeleteAndy has the show really loosely run; people basically just make small talk about Real Housewives shit and other Bravo shows. Rebecca and Jerry seemed to have zero attitude- they giggled over scenes of shows with Andy and had great rapport with eachother, and Jerry seemed really dorkily into RHOBH. They came off as a really chill nice couple who like each other and can have fun teasing and joking together (which I assume A LOT of hollywood couples cannot) For instance SJP was on the show but Mathew Broderick was not, despite both being friends with Andy in real life.
My hope is they have some sort of open relationship or something. Because I know it was revealed at some point maybe last year that Jerry has cheated on Rebecca. Out of all couples, especially with this blind item reveal showing how rad Rebecca is, this one hurts the most.
that was sooo sweet!
ReplyDeleteThe blind states Becky was with her kids. Now I'm a mother, and I would not risk my twins' lives by trying to stop a bus with my car. It's a great story AND maybe partially true, but highly doubt most of it is.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't have a clue who she was either, if she drove the bus with a name tag.
ReplyDeleteThat was nice of her. :)