Tom’s gift

In addition to the news reported by Annie (from website Teen Hollywood) I’ve found the following:

Actor Tom Cruise slipped $6600 cash into a collection box for an 11-year-old accident victim at a fast-food restaurant.

Cruise, who is in Virginia filming his new movie, War of the Worlds, stopped by the Dairy Queen in Lexington on Thursday night accompanied by director Steven Spielberg and an entourage of about 20 others.

The accident victim, Ashley Flint, 11, faces a fourth operation in January, and her single mother cannot pay the medical bills.

Flint was seriously injured in a go-cart accident in September. Her family placed the collection box in the Dairy Queen soliciting donations.

“I’m very grateful to Tom Cruise,” the girl’s mother was quoted as saying by the Roanoke Times newspaper.

The girl lost her short-term memory as a result of the accident and was unable to identify Cruise in a photograph, her mother said. Nevertheless, the girl plans to write Cruise a thank you note.

The restaurant had closed for the night for an employee Christmas party when Cruise and his entourage arrived, the Roanoke Times reported. The staff gladly opened its doors and let Cruise order some ice-cream.

Cruise stayed at the party for more than half an hour, according to employees.

Several Dairy Queen employees told the paper they believed one of the people in the entourage was Cruise’s former girlfriend, Spanish actress Penelope Cruz.

Source: shm.com.au

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