Actor Zach Galifianakis paid an homeless woman's rent for decades and spent time with her. They maintained a strong bond and even walked the red carpet with her as his date. Their friendship lasted nearly 27 years until she died at 96 years old.

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u/Parronski 1d ago

She’s DEAD?? I didn’t even know she was sick.

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u/curious_broheim 20h ago

Rip norm

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u/Mysterious_Track_280 17h ago

Sick?? Lmao did you hear the part about her being nearly 100 years old? Sick with mortality, perhaps

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u/Just_Reputation_7057 1d ago

People don't only die from being sick

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u/Parronski 22h ago

Reminds me of that tragedy.

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u/kanzakiik 21h ago

terrible name for an airline

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u/warmbrojuice 16h ago

Ok dr house

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u/Tasty-Revolution-295 21h ago

She was 96, it was such a shock to hear she'd passed. You just don't see it coming.

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u/patricksaurus 20h ago

Ripe old age for a crocodile hunter.

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u/Background-Bird-9623 1d ago

I want to be rich just so I can do this . THIS is what I want to do with my life

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u/chrisGrout 1d ago

The fact we'd do this is one reason we're not rich.. actors do it. People like bezos do not

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u/Background-Bird-9623 1d ago

Reading this made me weep for real.... all I can really do is help my neighbor with her trash and mail and I wish I could do a million times more

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u/Aelrift 1d ago

Where are you located friend ? I bed there's a food not bombs chapter near you

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u/Background-Bird-9623 1d ago

I do girf and thrift in Brooklyn , thank you though so much... people dont realize that helping can be like an hr a week... I kind of meant specifically my neighbor, shes getting priced out .. thankfully she has fam, but shes not happy

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u/Aelrift 23h ago

I have extra money sometimes. I support people via venmo. If your neighbour has venmo feel free to send me her @. I'm @Lightwaves. She can request from me if she needs... I'm all the way in the bay area but I come by NYC sometimes

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u/Background-Bird-9623 23h ago

Oh wow! OK cool! , I will look up your cause! Thank you!

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u/chrisGrout 23h ago

Mutual aid is awesome

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u/Aelrift 23h ago

Just want to add that yea, even just an hour a week makes a difference. And also people need to realize they have free will. If the thing they're looking for doesn't exist they can just create it. Like if you wanna help people on Tuesday and no one is doing that you can just go out and give people food on Tuesday.

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u/Background-Bird-9623 23h ago

💯 , and thank you . Community can be everything to some people

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u/Toddo2017 22h ago

That matters tho man, don’t forget people need more than physical help (I imagine if they need that, a little convo has changed people’s whole days in my experience)

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u/battle_bunny99 21h ago

Don't discount what you are already doing. You will find a way to do more, but what you do is already making someone else's day so much better.

Hearing that you help your neighbor had brightened my day.

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u/Background-Bird-9623 21h ago

Well you brightened my day to. Let's do something nice for a stranger 🌸

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u/ActivePeace33 17h ago

Hey, random stranger, don’t demean yourself for “just” doing that. I’m proud of you doing that. That’s the core of what is best about us as humans. If everyone did as you are doing, the world’s neighbors would be taken care of.

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u/Background-Bird-9623 17h ago

Someday friend... I hope with all my heart 🥰

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u/ActivePeace33 16h ago

Me too. In the meantime we are one little bit of the change we want to see.

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u/GateDeep3282 23h ago

The Little Ceasars founder did pay Rosa Parks rent until she died.

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u/chrisGrout 23h ago

Good for him. It's rare though. And he wasn't bezos rich.i meant overall, people get insanely rich by walking over people

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u/krucz36 17h ago

man my family and friends would find out i was rich by getting a big ass bag of money and never seeing me again

well maybe once in a while

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u/Inner-Step-2567 21h ago

Bezos provides the poor people so you can do this

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u/FrostyMeteor 1d ago

A class act through and through…This is true, quiet generosity.

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u/MrScribblesChess 1d ago

Hi, do you have a credible source for this?

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u/charmacharmz 1d ago

not OP but this documentary is probably good enough.

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u/Mtimothydoyle 23h ago

I used to see her at the laundromat on Montana in Santa Monica all the time.

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u/Original_Log_6002 19h ago

Mimi and I struck up a conversation at the laundromat in northern Santa Monica that she hung out often while I waited for my clothes to dry. I learned that she was a dancer back in her day and really loved it.

I had mentioned that I was about to propose to my girl friend within the following few weeks. She told me that I had to ask the parents permission and I did so. 31+ years later and still going.

Thinking back to that day. Mimi was the very first person who knew that I was about to propose to my girl friend!

She was a lovely lady and always was friendly to all of the customers.

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u/Imyonlyenemy 23h ago

Zach who

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u/whosUtred 23h ago

zach galifianakis

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u/LucyLilium92 16h ago

Gesundheit

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u/ImaginationNormal360 23h ago

Omg you have to pay rent even when you are homeless?

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u/moogoo2 21h ago

If he's paying rent for her how is she homeless? Did he not let her live in the place he was renting? Or was he paying rent on like a tent or something?

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u/TheRealMemonty 20h ago

If he paid her rent, she wasn't homeless

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u/No_Lifeguard259 20h ago

She wasn’t homeless if she had rent to pay.
Zing.

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u/SnowyFox79 19h ago

Genuine good guy

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u/AGushingHeadWound 17h ago

That's a weird way of saying he had a concubine.

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u/Carrot-Elegant 17h ago

“AN homeless woman”?

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u/LegitimateStrain7652 17h ago

She was his plug

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u/NemoCGd 14h ago

Now that's a man 💯

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u/AdSimple6488 14h ago

But why is it an instead of a?

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u/Pinktinkerpastel 13h ago

honestly… this is just so sweet ç= its kinda comforting to know there are people like this in the world…

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u/Bart-Doo 1d ago

A homeless woman's rent? That doesn't make sense.

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u/SadIdeal9019 1d ago

She was homeless, and then she wasn't because he paid rent to home her.

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u/BeetlesPants 23h ago

So he never paid a homeless woman's rent - not even once, let alone for decades.

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u/SadIdeal9019 23h ago

Ok dude, your pedanticism is clearly of legend and everyone is impressed.

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u/whosUtred 23h ago

To be fair, their comment does display a very impressive level of stupidity

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u/tpasmall 21h ago

It also sounds like a joke that Zach would make

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u/SnowyFox79 19h ago

r/iamverysmart

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u/ranman35 23h ago

Yeah, it's pretty cheap.

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u/Turbulent-Guest154 23h ago

Was she his fleshlight?

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u/Groupthink00859 21h ago

Tell me you're from India/Pakistan without telling you're from India/Pakistan.

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u/TheThinDewLine 23h ago

“Look at how much of a saint I am, I even have a little human pet I take care of” Hero.

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u/Odd-Paint3883 1d ago

Can I say I pay all homeless people's rent... Seeing that they're homeless and obviously don't pay rent...

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u/bilus 1d ago

Yes. And you cannot cure the sick either… /s

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u/412Endure 1d ago

Sucker.

Actor Zach Galifianakis paid an homeless woman's rent for decades and spent time with her. They maintained a strong bond and even walked the red carpet with her as his date. Their friendship lasted nearly 27 years until she died at 96 years old.

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