ESPN personality Jemele Hill watched Academy Award-nominated actress Amy Adams give her up first-class seat to a soldier on a flight from Detroit to Los Angeles.
Although Adams' gesture was done quietly, Hill Tweeted about her generosity, and now Adams is making headlines for being a "class act."
Hill emailed Today.com while still aboard the flight to give notice about what she witnessed:
"When we were waiting to board, I saw [Adams] glance the soldier's way and then she said something to the person she was traveling with. Once we boarded, I saw she was in first class. I was upgraded to first class and she was a couple rows behind me. I think she must have said something to the flight attendant, because before we took off she had vacated her seat and the flight attendant brought the soldier to her seat."
Adams knows a thing or two about the difficulties of military life. Her father was in the Army when she was a child, according to Vanity Fair:
It sounds glamorous to say that Adams was born in Vicenza, Italy. In fact, she was an army brat who got moved from base to base—eventually to Virginia, then to Colorado—until she was eight or nine years old. It was a blur: to this day, she’s not sure what her father’s rank was.
Adams gave a brief statement to Inside Edition (see above) after deplaning at LAX.
