Sarie Kessler raised four children on her own on a farm in Gold Coast, Australia, working as a physiotherapist. So that her daughter could pursue her dream of acting, she did something very few mothers would dare to do: she withdrew money from the mortgage on her own home, again and again, while Margot Robbie was barely landing small roles in Hollywood.
Robbie never forgot that gesture. In fact, she kept a written record of every amount she owed her, a piece of paper that, she said, she still has. When her career took off in 2013 thanks to ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, she did not hesitate to act: she used part of that first big paycheck to pay off the mortgage on the family home in Southport in full, valued at 490,000 dollars, as a gift for her mother’s 60th birthday.
‘Anyone in my position would do that for their mother. Of course they would,’ Robbie said years later on CBS Sunday Morning, as if repaying that love were the most natural thing in the world. 💛
