In his 2011 autobiography, Lithgow wrote that of those babysitters, “Our favorite was a vibrant girl named Coretta. A few years after her babysitting days ended, Coretta would marry a young minister from Georgia named Martin Luther King, Jr.” However, he never made the connection that it was the same “Corretta” that married Martin Luther King, Jr., until years later, in 1974, when she met him backstage at a play he was doing in New York, and Scott King reminded him that she had been his babysitter. To which he told AARP, “Can you imagine being told that by such an iconic person?”
