Aaron Paul Uses Breaking Bad Finale to Raise $1.8M for Anti-Bullying Charity

Calm down, everybody: there’ll be NO SPOILERS HERE.

What, you thought we wouldn’t mention it? Without revealing anything about the Breaking Bad finale, here’s the most interesting story to come out of the show’s final weeks: Aaron Paul, aka Jesse Pinkman, used fanboy hype to launch a very successful fundraising campaign for his wife’s anti-bullying nonprofit organization Kind Campaign.

Fundraising startup Omaze offers an unusual take on the charity model, giving donors the chance to enter a raffle for a “dream experience” centered on spending time with pop culture icons like Tyra Banks and the cast of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

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