

"Immediately after the show, I'm not kidding you, I got together with a group of clients and I said 'let's go and infiltrate a city and through that, love our orphans who have been abandoned and abused, let's go in and be the surrogate parents ' and we did," she said. Johnson's "yes" came out of the realization that God told her, after having read the Bible eight times, that it was the right thing to do.Īfter going incognito and living on a $40 budget in a tough neighborhood in Knoxville for the show, she began working on her own personal gift-giving with a group of 31 people during Christmas. While fighting the offer, she said she "came to the revelation that I was fighting God and that God was the one to open up the door and it was clear that He wanted this message to get out there." When the offer for "Secret Millionaire," came to her, she refused to participate in the show four times because to her, giving to charities had always been done in secret. In an interview with The Christian Post, Johnson summarized her life into four major points: grew up on welfare, became pregnant at 17, was homeless by 21 and became a millionaire by 23. The feel-good reality show has made the name Dani Johnson a hot search trend. Sunday's premiere of ABC's "Secret Millionaire" was a big hit with 12.6 million viewers.
