Have you ever received a $100,00 gift?
No? Well Queen Latifah has [no surprise there] from Coldplay front man, Chris Martin.
While promoting her film Bessie on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the actress told a story about seeing Martin at a charity event!
“One of the craziest things that happened … I sit next to this white guy. I don’t this guy, but he seems cool,” Latifah told Kimmel.
The charity was auctioning a piano that Alicia Keys played while performing with Jay Z for their award-winning hit, “Empire State of Mind.” (Latifah says the piano was from the Grammys, but Keys and Jay Z did not perform that song at the Grammys. The piano she describes sounds like it might have been played during Keys and Jay Z’s 2009 VMAs performance.)
Martin insisted that he and Latifah try to get the room to start bidding. “We get it up to like $150,000 for the piano,” Latifah said. She realized after they had bid that it was Chris Martin helping her.
Latifah praised Martin for his generosity saying: “He pays $100,000 on the piano, I pay 50. He gives me the piano. He is the salt of the earth as far I’m concerned.”
How nice! Check out her clip above!
