Halle Berry has convinced bosses at cosmetics firm Revlon to fund renovations at a Los Angeles shelter for domestic abuse victims.
The actress has been a longtime supporter and volunteer at the Jenessee Center and when shelter bosses asked her if she could help them with a costly makeover, she jumped at the chance to be a big part of the facility's new look.
Revlon bosses agreed to pay for half the $500,000 (£333,300) renovation as a thanks to Berry for being the company's spokesmodel for the past 15 years, and the Oscar winner insists the help she has been able to give the shelter means more to her than any movie she has starred in.
As part of CNN Christmas TV special Big Stars, Big Giving, Berry gave host Alina Cho a tour of the facility, cooing about the renovation of apartments there for abused women and their children.
She told Cho, "Many times if people can't see it, they can't believe it. This is a way for them to see it."
And Berry insists she owes it to her once-abused mother to do everything she can for the Jenessee Center and the women and children who seek sanctuary from domestic violence at the facility.
She experienced what many of them are going through when she was growing up.
Berry recalls, "My father one time threw our little dog against the wall and the dog bit his tongue in half. That's frightening for a child to see that kind of abuse... (but) there wasn't a Jenessee Center for my mom."