Actress Julia Roberts spent time with prostitutes who were paid $35 each to talk to her before filming "Pretty Woman".
Barbara Marshall, a former nurse and the widow of the movie's director, Garry Marshall, has opened up on how she was volunteering at a free clinic here in 1989 when she got a call from her spouse, reports New York Post newspaper's Page Six column.
She said: "Garry would never visit me at the clinic, because he was a hypochondriac and afraid of getting a disease.
But he asked if Julia could come and talk to some of the patients.
"I recruited two young women who came to the clinic regularly, and I paid them $35 each to meet with Julia.
I went back to work, and about 20 minutes later, Julia yelled from the end of the hall, 'Bye, Barbara.
We're going to take a drive.
We'll be back later. '"
Marshall panicked and called her husband and told the director: "Your star just left with a group of girls, and I think they were heading to Hollywood Boulevard.
I'm worried.