EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Fergie Spends Her Birthday Running In Rain To Raise Money For Japan Relief
March 28 2011, Published 10:00 a.m. ET
Instead of going to a spa or a Hollywood club, Fergie spent her 36th birthday this weekend running in the rain with hubby Josh Duhamel and thousands of others to raise money for the Japan tsunami relief fund, and Breaking Celebrity News has exclusive interviews with the charitable celeb couple.
Despite the nasty weather, 4,000 supporters, including Paris and Nicky Hilton, joined Fergie and Josh at the Josh Duhamel tokidoki Youth Relief Run for the American Red Cross on Sunday at the Santa Monica Beach to raise $140,000 for the victims in Japan.
"People have just shown up with a really good attitude, and it’s my birthday!" exclaimed the excited Black Eyed Peas singer after the two-mile fun run. "I’ve got my mom here, my old school friends came like Stephanie from Wild Orchid. I’m just excited to be here, it was a great thing to do to give back on my birthday."
Duhamel organized a similar run last year to raise money for Haiti and was motivated to do it again after the shocking disaster in Japan on March 11.
"I just wanted to do something," the Life As We Know It star said in an exclusive interview with Breaking Celebrity News. "When everything happened in Haiti last January, more than just writing a check out I felt this overwhelming want and need to actually pitch in and nobody could get there. The idea was that we wanted to give people the opportunity to actively contribute in some way even if you couldn’t be there."
Duhamel went on to explain why this disaster in particular had touched his heart. "Seeing some of the images coming out of Japan, I’d never seen anything like it," he revealed. "To hear about all the people who are missing and then everything that is going on with the nuclear plants.
"Yes, Japan is a developed nation and they’re a lot more structurally sound than Haiti, but those people are suffering too. I just want people to remember that."