Tyler Perry is doing the Lord’s work.
After hearing about an Atlanta couple who were stranded in Mexico after they couldn’t pay a $14,000 medical bill, a source told PEOPLE that Perry came to their rescue.
Tori Austin and fiancé Stephen Johnson were on a Carnival Dream cruise when Johnson, 31, became ill. Johnson was later diagnosed with pancreatitis and diabetes, according to WGCL. He was admitted and treated at a hospital in Progreso, Mexico and spent several days in intensive care.
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His hospital visit would prove to be costly as the couple didn’t spring for traveler’s insurance while planning the cruise. Neither did the couple have medical insurance. To make matters worse, when Austin asked the hospital if she could work out a payment plan for the expense and return to the U.S., the hospital denied her request. The two were told that they could not leave until the bill was paid.
Austin told WGCL that hospital staff not only did not trust them to make those payments but actually locked their windows to keep them from trying to escape the facility. If they still managed to do so, staffers warned that police would be called.
Source: Tyler Perry pays medical expenses for couple stranded in Mexico
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