Hilary Swank Gets Emotional Meeting Widowed Caregiver Fighting Medical Debt Crisis
Hilary Swank dishes on her new movie "Ordinary Angels" and explains how the film partners with the nonprofit RIP Medical Debt to help wipe out America's medical debt crisis. Hilary gets emotional meeting Andrew, a widowed caregiver who is also on a mission to wipe out millions in medical debt in memory of his late wife who died from cancer.
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Hilary Swank has always been a really humble, kind-hearted, open woman. So talented and yet so unaffected by fame.
Yes. She is a wonderful human being ❤
Between the two ladies, Hillary and Kelly..they could change the world !!❤
I have always felt she is one of the most humble stars ever. I am excited to see this awesome movie later today. I'm widowed and I have allowed being alone to keep me from seeing movies but not today. I'm taking myself to dinner and this movie and I'm ok being by myself.
I agree @Ernie1978, that's one of the things I like about her along with her awesome talent. She's an awesome soul.
My favorite actress! 😊
The United States should be ashamed of their medical system!!! 🇨🇦
Most of us living here are.
I'm in hospital right now from a bad fall. broken nose, eye socket & broken arm spiral break. Right arm, I'm right handed. I have medicare 80% and 20% supplement. they told me medicare will not allow shower chair, wheel chair, walking cane, bed rail or toilet riser. I pay alot for this insurance. i'm disgusted. won't even get me assisted ride home from the rehab hospital. you can bet the hospital is getting $$$$$$$$$ from my ins.this is wrong. the brace they put on my arm was too long now i have 2 wounds from an ill fitting brace.
@@juneagresti7848that is absolutely wicked!!!! I'm so sorry for all you are going through ❤ I hope and pray you will get what you need. Will be praying for you❤❤❤
USA should be ashamed of almost every bad system...crime, homeless, medical bills.....
Was just coming to make a comment about that. Canadian health system may not be perfect but it IS wonderful ..
This was so emotional! I am so, so sorry to all of you who live in the USA and have to navigate this cruel healthcare system.
Thank you it's a mess here!! Don't ever have to get in an ambulance it starts at least about $ 700.00 and up
People buy separate insurance for careflight!
I was 16 yo when I was diagnosed with cervical cancer and 18 yo when I was diagnosed with uterine cancer, had so much debt that I had to file for bankruptcy to get out from under it. There were no organizations out there to help me back then with the bills. If there were, I didn’t know about them at the time. April 1st will be my 32 year cancer free. Thank you for what you are doing for these people drowning in debt. Im so sorry for your loss.
thanks so much for having Andrew on the show and sharing Casey's story! ❤
What a beautiful story and such a wonderful and much needed organization created! It reminds me of a story my sister told me in my teens. Before immigrating to the USA, I was badly burned and couldn’t lift my right arm fully because of how my skin healed. My proud father was told about an organization that could help with upending medical costs for my 1st skin graft surgery. If it wasn’t for that organization, I probably wouldn’t have the mobility that I have. We need to support organizations like these. GREAT STORY ❤
I lost my wife of 22 yrs approximately 10 years ago, she fough Pancreatic Cancer for almost 3 yrs before she succumbed to that terrible disease. I was her caregiver for those years and it really took a toll on me. But I wouldn't have had it any other way. She was the light of my life and I still miss her a lot.
So sorry Louis. You were her everything in her most vulnerable time. She loved you even more for that. I think at the end we all just want someone we love to hold our hand to reassure us as we leave this world. I pray I will have someone there.
Si very sorry for jour loss. May your pain be lightened knowing you did your best.
Love and light to you, so sorry for your loss 💕
So very sorry for your loss.
Most men are incapable to take care of their wives. So good for you bfot honored her and your marriage vow. I'm sure adore would have done the same for you. Women are that way.
I've been a fan of the Gregory Brothers for quite some time... To learn about Andrew's grief and the beauty of keeping the memory of his wife alive by simply paying forward to wipe out medical debts is an inspiration about our purpose in life. Thank you Kelly and Hillary for bringing out his story... 😢 🙏
Hilary is so genuine. I heard her talk about growing up poor and how kids wouldn’t play with her. Broke my heart but love how she rose above it all!!
Family Caregivers are True Heroes.
Someone who is a caregiver is usually an amazing person but they aren’t hero’s, let’s stop overusing that word.
@@TheGingerKing-1 that's your opinion. Do you know what's it's like taking care of a dying parent or loved one? If not then be quiet.
Love Hilary!! Such a beautiful person inside and out! She's so authentic,,,a real human being that cares!
Love Hilary Swank. I know she has two Oscars, but in a weird way, I think she's underappreciated. I never hear anyone cite her as one of their favourite actresses. I think she is so good in everything she does and she always picks challenging roles. I so wish her t.v show Away got picked up for a second season; that show was poignant and so engaging.
I think the same from Texas.
I don’t think many people know who she is even if she has Oscars.
I love this.. Kelly, & Hilary I Cried threw the entire segment.. ❤ FLY HIGH Casey...
Wow! I had never heard of this. Thank you for bringing awareness to the national medical debt issue and this way to help! Very emotional segment.
Love Hilary Swank, brilliant actress ❤
Such a deep, meaningful conversation ❤ a health treatment shouldn't destroy our life, should make it better ....
May he and their daughter regularly get signs she's around them
I’m in the UK so we are extremely lucky to have the NHS. During my husbands cancer treatment I went on a Facebook support group for people dealing with the same cancer. It broke my heart that some people had to delay starting treatment, or had to forgo a chemo round for a month or two….I just couldn’t wrap my head around it. But at the same time made us so thankful for the NHS, but not only that, the weekly financial support benefit that he was entitled to through the government Also for the next five years free prescriptions and dental cover. Some people moan about the NHS, but they are literally life saving AND without the added mental stress of financial debt. I just couldn’t image going through all treatment, being in remission and be thousands and thousand of pounds (dollars) in debt.
What an incredibly powerful segment. I had no idea that medical debt was handled that way and that a company existed to help people reduce it instead of getting scammed by it. Thank you for bringing attention to this, Kelly! Can’t wait to see the new movie, too. Such a great segment.
Yay Hilary!🇨🇦 All films are so emotional and impactful. Love her intense acting style.
I just received a letter in the mail yesterday from that company and wasn’t sure if it was real or not. I was going to look it up today and now I know it’s a real thing. It was a bill for $65.78, but in the grand scheme of things I am super grateful for any help with my huge medical bills. ❤
I love Hilary Swank ❤️🩷💗🫶🏻😍🥰😘🌹👠👠.
This just reiterated the fact that we need to fix or healthcare system ✅✅
I also lost my wife of 20 years to ovarian cancer horrible disease I respect this movie so! Blessings
I love that you are real Kelly. Suggestion. Please let people talk. You cut them off a little too much. But your sincerity comes through. ❤
Love all three of those people on stage. What amazing humans.
You are such a kind person Kelly. Thank you
Eww...was hard to not feel what Andrew described in his wife's last months..and indeed, I cried. The more emotional he became, I became. When Hillary was holding it back, I was trying to not get emotional. I think, now, that I am going to send what I can, to the organization, above, to do what I can to help someone. Won't be 5k, but it will be something.
This was such an emotional interview for me. I'm still crying. My mother needed life-saving surgery to repair 2 brain aneurisms. Hospital billed my father $20,000 for the anæsthesia. He wound up having to work until his back gave out at age 85. Then he was evicted a month after he had a pacemaker maker put in. He'd gone into heart failure when he realized he couldn't afford to live or have a roof over his head. Landlord threw out all his belongings after hospital put him in a nursing home. When there is no family able to help, strangers make some life-altering decisions for you, going so far as to prevent the family from having any say, sadly. A person can work their entire life, but an outsider can steal your efforts by making it difficult for you to enjoy the fruits of your own labor or retain that which you've worked hard for. One major illness can wipe out all a person's resources, and an entire family's livelihood The medical racket in the US is a leading cause of despair in this country.
Couldn't you help.
@@bettynesbitt4503 Unfortunately, I was coping with a chronic illness & homelessness while this was occuring.
So sorry, take care.
Welcome to America people
EMOTIONAL 😭
EMOTIONAL 😭
Love this!!!! Thank you Kelly, Hillary, and Andrew. God bless you for having such caring hearts.💝💝💝
Lots of newfound respect for both Hilary and Kelly here. And I love this whole story.
Living with 2 kidney transplants. My first Kidney was in June of 1993. I outlive my organ for 21 years. My organ aged, so i got my 2nd kidney after struggling with dialysis for 4 years. September 4, 2018, is my 2nd kidney. Organ donation is crucual, and i thank my donors so much for having me see, feel, and live life through my disease. Its hard. However, i have more compassion for so many who lived in the same histories in our organ needing transplant. Hilary, thank you for spreading this awareness!!!! I love you!
I absolutely love Hillary swank I have always loved her. When she first started her career what a talented beautiful woman
Why did this make me so emotional?😢😢😢😢😢
THIS right here is why I love Kelly and her show. Love it when she does things like this. We need MORE!
One of the best actresses ever!
Thank you Andrew for sharing the beautiful story of your wife, Casey. Casey's legacy and love lives on through the lives you're helping. I'm inspired by this and reminded about the power of kindness.
This is WONDERFUL! My almost 5 yr old grandson, Henry, was born with HLHS, half a heart. He has been in Children's Hospital in Louisvillel since 7-25-23. He is on the transplant list waiting for his new heart. The medical debit him and all these precious heart warriors is beyond ridiculous. But, not only that, the cost of tolls on the bridges from IN to KY, eating out all the time, gas back and forth, and all the other extra expenses is crazy! I thank God for this movie, and hoping it will wake people up!
I have heard about their charity and their hearts. It is so very very kind and precious. My Hubby has had leukemia 12 yrs taking meds and was laid off 2 yrs into treatment and then had kidney cancer 2020 surgery and now adrenal out w Cushings. And it has been tough on disability to even think about paying some things now w this long journey w both of us as seniors. So many help women and kids but often too forget our guys and especially seniors. Love love their heart.
This is such an important topic. I recently heard a story of a mother who had a young daughter. She was homeless because of the medical costs for her daughter's chemo, she lost her daughter to cancer. Our medical system is broken. If someone has surgery, needs hospitalization, or treatment for a terminal illness, the costs are stagering. Kelly, thank you for hosting this show and everything you do. Andrew, thank you for sharing your story. Thank you for caring about helping others. Hillary, thank you for helping to bring this to the forefront, and for your kindness.
I love all the Gregory brothers! My sister Mary and I met them in college. Very genuinely talented and wonderful group of men . So very sorry for your loss, Andrew. I hope you find peace 🥰 love, Rita and Mary
Thank you for this information. It’s a beautiful way to honor Casey and keep,her light shining. ❤ ✨🌟✨
I believe angels walk amongst us and we all can be some one’s angel. This episode touched my heart.❤️
This was a very emotional video....and btw...kelly....ur perfect, please...u always sound on point
Hilary Swank is so very caring and giving. Bless you Kelli as well for your generous heart.💖💖💖💖💖💖
One movie I really liked Hilary n was “ P.S. I Love You “ with Kathy Bates and Gerard Butler. Great cast❤❤❤❤❤🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
Even before some crushing diagnosis that requires extensive treatments, lots of people are barely scraping by and can't afford their co-pays so they just ignore the pain, ignore the lump until they have no other choice. Then it costs way more than the preventative check ups and tests would have. Every day someone is choosing between seeing a doctor or therapist and paying their monthly bills. They say that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Lots of good folks can't afford either one.
Haven't seen Ordinary Angels yet. Hope to soon! Andrew, thank you for sharing your journey with and of your wife, and for what you are doing for the medical debt crisis.
Hilary just losing it is soooo oof human. Love her, love Kelly.
Hilary is such a real and kind person!
Love this Woman! I don’t watch tv but because she was involved, I watched Alaska Daily. People need to know what happens to Alaskan Women(BIPOC). She’s an amazing actress&remembers where she came from. Congratulations on her twins💙💙
I really liked it too! Well written.
Hilary is so down to earth. I really appreciate that about her.
Hilary was really holding back just bawling, but it makes sense for the stars to not make the story about them when non-celebrities are on the show so I get it. Thank you Andrew and Casey
It's amazing to see how much she cares for this family she never met and cry for the pain of this husband lost! She real and I love it
I live in Canada and we don’t have to deal with that type of medical debt. I’m so grateful.
So beautiful💜💜 This is why it's so important to learn about Long Term Care and Living Benefits solutions.
I liked her in Karate Kid…we all need a Mr. Miyagi in our lives.
I LOVE HILARY!!! she is just SO real ❤ seeing this movie tonight can't wait!!
Wow.. tears flowing. This randomly came across my KZhead today out of the blue almost. I was looking up something else and this is exactly what I am having to do right now.. is choose.. how do I choose.. what do I choose.. what is right to do.. my kids need me still.. so many thoughts. And on top of it.. it is with Hilary Swank who graduated from the high school my kids attended a couple years ago. I needed this for some reason. Not sure why cause I still don’t know the right answer.. Kelly is my absolute favorite of all time and just very powerful right now to me. I hope I can make the right choice. I am living already in shambles and now have to start making a choice because I lost state coverage that was covering me. Wowwww! Thank you all for all you do.
I was diagnosed with uterine cancer stage 1. My doctor did a biopsy since I was having such heavy periods and was able to be treated with hysterectomy at an early stage. My heart goes out to the family. I was 56 & had not hit menopause yet. Great interview
Thank you to Kelly and her show for talking on this...I had never heard of it. What an incredible story. So amazing!
I lost my mum nearly 8 years after a prolonged illness and medical issues. For 4 years I looked after her, and it was my pleasure to do so (I had promised my dad years ago before he passed that she would never go into a care home - and she never did). My older siblings hardly did anything to help. I put my life on hold. I used to joke with my friends that when she goes my mind would break. It did. The day she passed I had a breakdown and t this day my mind has never been the same. I went through verba, mental and at one point physical assault by my sister in law when she and my brother moved in with me and 6 nf half years later I'd had enough. The house was sold and we went our seperate ways. Hilary was so right in how it's the just the thing you do. You look after your loved ones. My mum looked after me when I was younger, helped me when I got sick. It was my turn to do the same for her. I miss her every day. If anyone out there reading this is in a similar situation PLEASE know you are not alone. Help is out there should you need it, and above all never be afrraid of askign for help. It's not a sign of weakness. It's a sign of your strength.
If we would like to donate how do we go about this? LOVE Hillary, she is the best!!
Just gotta love Kelly Clarkson ❤ she's one of the coolest .
We feel so lucky being able to RV and explore other towns, states and provinces. Love that Hilary is an RVer too - such a nice person with oodles of talent!
She is amazing person and so sweet in person
Wonderful show with extraordinarily people. Such good inspires good. I'm so inspired. Thank you.
Ms. Kelly, Ms. Hillary and grieving man, thank you for sharing your story. My condolences to you and your family. Isn't there programs in the American cancer society for cancer patients to help with paying hospital bills? Grieving man, your program, will start to help millions of deserving people. Thank you, much love and hugs man. Ms. Hilary the movie, Boys don't cry is a good one. I didn't resonate with the movie then. Because of trauma. I had to work through the trauma to remember who I have always been. And not my mother telling me who I was, what I can do and not with my body. Iam so glad you are well and seem happy. I can resonate with medical bills. When I broke my neck in 2001, I received in the postal service mail, medical bills on my lower back from an industrial accident on the job, I was 28 or 29 years old. I was the breadwinner in the family. I was a teen parent and went through training to be a Type 2 commercial school bus driver, I drove commercially at age 18 to 28, when I hurt my back. I started to throw my medical bills in garbage bags, total of $129,000. That is just the lower back. A personal injury in a car crash for my neck. Bill Heartless was his name. I received $10,000, for my personal injury case which I broke my neck in two places and survived. Not fair court anything. Not one fair of justice in the work comp system and personal injury from car crashes. I have been in 5. Last one was 7/11/2021. I was sitting stationary in my SUV when someone back into us hard. I was up for a week and started to see sequence of angelic numbers and sequences. I had written every day for a year and half about the spiritual events that were going on and had some very good tarot readers to find the words that was going on. I knew it was right. Is a knowing. I was playing soccer around 28 years and hurt my foot and in denial that my back was hurt with a herniated disc. Scoliosis and arthritis. real legimate pain and iam here just saying my truth. drove bus hurt my back, then got in a T-bone on passenger side and the Volvo station saved my life as well as the seatbelt. 1999 I hurt my back, car crash broke my neck, 6 months later another T-boned and waited a year for surgery because of fear and have partial paralysis on my left arm. I have dealt with extreme nerve, bone and muscle pain on a daily basis, physical pain through the years and emotional. They are connected. My three children took care of me. Can you say your children would?!! I ended up staying in community college no matter what, I had gotten loans and financial aid, and sometimes a part time job. I have paid back half of my student loan debt to have added interest through 30 years keeping me hostage to not the best credit. Then Campfire Wildfire I lost my home, my wife. It was for the best thou. Asking my higher power for clarity now which direction to go. My journey has been long and Iam tired and wish for more joy, love, great friends, all the good stuff. Iam willing to be receptive to it all. I hadnt done in the past. I was told we take care of our own. I didn't ask for help. I learned to. I wish you were around back then because Iam having a hard time with my credit and getting my financial life back still to this day. Iam 54 years old. In May will be an elder at 55 years old. I wish for Peace, harmony, love, with a future that is bright with happiness. Because with my life story, there must be a reason God has me here. So, Iam reaching out here for the last year. Today, my neck prosthetic is deteriorating Iam eligible for surgery and I dont want to do it. Instead, physically therapy and bands to strengthen the upper body, stretches, heat etc. I just want peace, joy and love with real people for the rest of my days. Iam not putting up with bs and taking more risks. I guard my inner peace and Iam extremely lonely and done with it all God.
The way she portrayed the character of Sharron in the movie was impeccable. It was completely fitting and original. I'll remember her for that.
Such an amazing story. I'm more humble to just hear this. So glad I got to see this. God bless.❤
Thank you for your huge heart and all your impactful efforts to help people with major medical debt. That is incredible!! I am so sorry for your loss.💜
I just wrote message about help with our medical debt, but I meet you back in Burleson at one if your drama productions. My x- mother n law was your Spanish teacher . Mrs Gerstenmeier I have watch and love your show. You are so kind and real. You help me through my bad days with your singing and laughter. So THANKYOU
I cried.
She is an incredible actress!❤
Cared for my wife who was diagnosed with FTD at 52. She massed in 2022 she was 55. It changed me so much. Miss Her so much.❤️❤️❤️😇🙏
I’m so glad to see her acting again! I’ve missed her. She is my favorite
What a beautiful and heartbreaking story. They should turn it into a movie! And Hillary Swank- she has such an empathic and kind spirit. I adore her. ❤
Great movie. Loved it. Thanks Hilary.
I took care of Hilary’s grandmother at Clearview in Iowa. I see a lot of her expressions in Hilary. ❤
This made my bawling my eyes out. It was a great video.
Excellent movie.
Great movie!
Great to see Hilary Swank again. She was totally amazing in the Clint Eastwood movie Million Dollar Baby. Amazing acting by her. And I'm really impressed with Kelly Clarkson.
Great man!
Absolutely beautiful!❤
Love this road trips are fun ❤❤❤
THIS is the debt that should be getting wiped out , not student loans
So nice
The US needs to get a proper health program in place because as diseases run rampant there will be a rapid decline in the population. Proper health care means a decline in the homeless population and drug abusers.
My two favs people in the life❤❤❤
Kelly I love you ❤
She’s so right about not taking the interstate in an RV. Love her! Got my tickets for film
I love them both ❤❤
I'm so touched by Hilary's appearance here.
Saw this movie it is excellent and Hillary plays the character brilliantly!
Great actress. Lovely lady. ❤
Talk about tugging on them heartstrings... This disease is terrible on the mind and the body. I have been blessed with disability insurance but my heart goes out to all those who are dealing with the medical finances on top of having stupid cancer
It is like the answer is staring you in the face but you choose not to akknowledge it. I hope someday this world wakes up!
Can’t wait to see the movie. It’s coming out in Fall right?
It comes out tomorrow the 22nd amd it looked like a good movie too! Have a great day!
Andrew is so damn talented. Love that man.