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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Bill McLoughlin

Hearing woman’s £17k energy bill for medical equipment ‘destroyed me’, says Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet said the story of a woman who was facing a £17,000 energy bill simply to keep her daughter alive "absolutely destroyed" her, with the Oscar-winning star staying she had no other option but to help.

Carolynne Hunter'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.

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