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27th Aug 2014

Aaron Paul Crashes His Wife’s Charity Website After Mentioning It In Emmy Award Acceptance Speech

The actor paid tribute to the charity during the ceremony.

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One of the cutest moments from this year’s Emmy Awards was Breaking Bad actor Aaron Paul’s tribute to his wife as he accepted the Best Supporting Actor gong.

As he was recognised for his performance as Jesse Pinkman, Paul thanked Lauren Parsekian for marrying him and implored viewers to check out her anti-bullying charity Kind Campaign, which she founded in 2009.

“To my wife – my God, thank you for marrying me. Thank you for dedicating your life to spread kindness across the world. We all appreciate it,” he said.

“If you guys don’t know what she does, look up Kind Campaign. Do you and your kids a favour: Kind Campaign.”

The traffic to the charity’s website was so heavy following the plug that it crashed and has yet to be restored.

Kind Campaign aims to tackle girl-on-girl bullying and Lauren previously revealed that she was inspired to set up the organisation after being targeted at school.

“My ordeal started because a boy liked me and this girl liked him. Through seventh and eighth grade, I was tortured every single day by a group of girls,” she said.

“My bullying experience affected the course of my life. I was a floater in high school. I was friends with everybody but didn’t get too close to anyone. I am thankful for going through that experience, walking those hallways in middle school. If not for that, Kind wouldn’t exist. There’s so much good we can do, so it all happened for a reason.”