Dec 22, 2010 16:08 GMT  ·  By
Rapper Lil Wayne buys fan’s mother an $11,000 wheelchair – the Maybach of wheelchairs
   Rapper Lil Wayne buys fan’s mother an $11,000 wheelchair – the Maybach of wheelchairs

Even behind prison bars, Lil Wayne remains the same awesome person his fans have come to love. While still serving time on gun-related charges, he bought a woman a brand new wheelchair after receiving letters from her daughter.

The rapper was released from prison at the beginning of last month but his gesture proves that you don’t have to be on the outside to help a fellow in need, even if they’re complete strangers.

As the New York Daily News reports, Ronda Austin kept writing to Lil Wayne to tell her about her life and offer him encouragement and support to finish his stint in prison.

She says she never asked for anything but, somehow, she realized that her mother, the 64-year-old Evelyn needed a new wheelchair because the one she had kept her homebound.

One day, she got it: a $11,000 motorized chair that has changed her life completely. Now, she can go for walks outside and move around infinite times more than she did before.

“I pray for him every night thanking him for this chair. I love every bit of it. It changed my life,” Evelyn Austin of Williamstown, N.J., says for the NY Daily News.

Ronda, the daughter that made this possible for her, was equally surprised to hear of the gift, especially since she knew for a fact she’d never asked for anything from the famous rapper.

“I couldn’t believe it. I never asked for nothing. I just told him all kinds of different things about me. I never even said I needed help,” Ronda explains for the same publication.

In her weekly letters to the star, Ronda also told him of how her mother hadn’t left the house for about 2 years because the wheelchair she had was too damaged to be used anymore.

One day, she got a call from Lil Wayne himself, telling her that it was “alright,” he “got” her.

“It was something that he was compelled to do,” Nina Packer, head of Lil Wayne’s charitable foundation, tells the NY Daily News. “He wanted to buy Mrs. Austin the Maybach of wheelchairs.”