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04.12.2022 - 21:07 / dailyrecord.co.uk
The story of a Scots mum who was struggling to pay her £17K energy bill to keep disabled daughter alive 'absolutely destroyed' actress Kate Winslet.
The Oscar-winning star said she had no other option but to help after hearing Tillicoultry woman Carolynne Hunter's money struggles.
Carolynne's 12-year-old daughter Freya, the youngest of four children, has severe complex health problems and disabilities, is non-verbal and blind and requires full-time oxygen and at-home nursing care.
The Titanic star, 47, told the BBC's Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg she felt she had to do something when she heard Ms Hunter was "going to have to put her child into care because she could not afford her electricity bills".
"I thought, on what planet is anyone going to let that happen? This is completely, completely wrong," she told the broadcaster.
"It was just wrong to me that this woman was going to suffer and that she should have been in any way as a mother forced to make such a heart-breaking decision because she simply didn't have the support and couldn't pay the bills.
"I just couldn't let that happen."
Ms Hunter, 49, from Tillicoultry in Scotland, launched a GoFundMe fundraiser to help her pay the soaring running costs of the equipment that keeps Freya alive, which includes a machine monitoring her oxygen and heart rate.
A £17,000 donation was made to the page from the actress, marked "Kate Winslet and family".
On her GoFundMe page, Ms Hunter said she had "no way of reducing" the energy in her home due to Freya's needs, and she faced a predicted annual fuel bill of £17,000 in January 2023 - up from just over £9,000 in October this year.
In August Ms Hunter told the PA news agency about her fears for the winter.
"Our families are going to
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