HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — A pair of Hollywood actresses helped save a life Friday.
Demi Moore and Nia Vardalos were involved in a series of Twitter posts that led authorities to a young Florida man who threatened suicide on Twitter.
The Seminole County Sheriff's Office told the Associated Press that they received two calls from the West Coast reporting the suicide threat. Authorities responded to the young man's home and transported him to an undisclosed hospital. He was not physically injured, they said.
Moore responded after the man threatened to hang himself in a town north of Orlando.
"R U rlly asking 4 help?" she tweeted.
Vardalos, best known for her role in the hit film My Big Fat Greek Wedding, also saw the man's threat and called a suicide hotline.
"Just spoke to FL police again, they're with [him] now. He is ok, it's not a hoax. Thank u all for sending love," she posted on her Twitter page Friday. "I called suicide line, connected to FL police, I gave his name+city. They went to home, helped him."
Moore, who along with her husband Ashton Kutcher is one of the micro-blogging site's most popular members, also expressed her thanks.
"Thank you twitterverse for your help supporting someone in pain last night," she tweeted.
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