\tFriends of Sally Kirkland organized a GoFundMe in the name of the actress, hoping to raise $65,000 to help pay for her latest medical needs. The Academy Award-nominated performer dealt with four fractures to her neck, wrist, and hip in the past year, according to the GoFundMe page. While she was recovering from these injuries, she developed two \u201clife-threatening infections,\u201d which she is currently attempting to find the right treatment for.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\tKirkland starred in the 1988 movie \u201cAnna,\u201d for which she was nominated for the best actress Oscar and won the Best Actress Golden Globe Award. With a career starting in the 1960s, she participated in more than 300 projects.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\tThe GoFundMe explains that Kirkland lost the money she generated from \u201cAnna\u201d and her established investments due to the 2007-2008 financial crisis.\u00a0 \t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t \t\t\tPopular on Variety\t\t \t \t\t \t \tIt also explains the actress\u2019s current lack of insurance coverage for her disease: \u201cIn 2021, SAG-AFTRA canceled the supplement insurance for members over the age of 65 that served as members\u2019 Medigap coverage.\u201d This has left the veteran at a crossroads dealing with this health complication.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThis past year Sally fractured her four bones in her neck, right wrist, and her left hip. While recovering she developed two separate life-threatening infections. The combination of these injuries and infections have required extensive hospitalizations and rehab beyond the 100 days insurance will cover,\u201d further states the GoFundMe.<\/p>\n
\tThe fundraising effort was organized by her friends Paige Dylan, Coty Galloway and Mel England with \u201cgratitude, hope and love.\u201d They describe their friend as \u201ca maternal figure offering encouragement, wisdom and love when it was needed most. For those who know Sally personally, she has been a limitless source of generosity, kindness and unwavering spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Friends of Sally Kirkland organized a GoFundMe in the name of the actress, hoping to raise $65,000 to help pay for her latest medical needs. The Academy Award-nominated performer dealt with four fractures to her neck, wrist, and hip in the past year, according to the GoFundMe page. While she was recovering from these injuries, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}