'Barbie' star Margot Robbie paid off her mom's home loan: 'Don't even worry about that mortgage'

When Margot Robbie archetypal started earning wealth arsenic an actress, her archetypal bid of concern mode to wage backmost the idiosyncratic who had helped her execute her dreams.

During Robbie's aboriginal career, her parent helped support her afloat by borrowing against her home, the histrion revealed successful an interrogation with CBS Sunday Morning. "She'd instrumentality wealth retired of the location owe and lend maine money," she said. "So I ever knew, 'Oh, I've gotta wage that back.'" 

Robbie said that she kept cautious way of each dollar that her parent gave her, penning it each down. "I person that portion of insubstantial still," she said. "I kept it. Everything I owed my mom, I had written down." 

Though she reportedly earned $12.5 million for her pb relation successful this weekend's smash deed movie "Barbie," Robbie wasn't a household sanction until she appeared successful 2013's "The Wolf of Wall Street." 

As she kept working, steadily gathering up her earnings, Robbie stayed focused connected her goal.

"And 1 day, erstwhile I made capable money, I conscionable paid that full owe disconnected completely," she said. "I was like, 'Mom, don't adjacent interest astir that owe anymore. It doesn't beryllium anymore.'" 

The 33-year-old actor, who has received 2 Academy Award nominations and has appeared successful dozens of films, said successful the interrogation that the determination to instrumentality attraction of her parent was an casual one.

"Honestly, anyone successful my position, you'd bash that for your mom," she said. "Of people you would."

Robbie is acold from the archetypal prima who took attraction of their parents erstwhile they made it big. Fellow Aussie Chris Hemsworth paid disconnected his father's debts with his Hollywood earnings, portion Michael B. Jordan bought a mansion to stock with his parents.

"It's each kid's dream, to bargain their ma and dada a house," helium said successful a 2018 interview. "It was a bucket-list happening for me." 

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