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The Independent UK
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Dan Barker

Kate Winslet says mother’s struggle to pay £17k energy bill ‘destroyed’ her: ‘I just couldn’t let that happen’

PA Media

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 feeling 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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