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Amy Schumer buys back family farm as gift for her father

Amy Schumer has given her father an early holiday gift by buying back the farm her family once owned.
Actress Amy Schumer speaks at Tribeca Talks: After the Movie: Inside Amy Schumer during the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival at Spring Studio on April 19, 2015 in New York City.

Amy Schumer has given her father an early holiday gift by buying back the farm her family once owned.

Schumer posted a screengrab on Instagram on Monday of her delivering the news to her father on a video call. She also posted a video of herself as a child walking through a cornfield on the farm.

She added in the caption, "We lost the farm when we lost everything else. But today I got to buy it back for him."

Today I bought my father's farm back.

A photo posted by @amyschumer on

Schumer didn't say where the farm is located.

Video from the farm when I was running away in the cornfield and my dad was taunting me because I wanted him to come with me. We lost the farm when we lost everything else. But today I got to buy it back for him.

A video posted by @amyschumer on


The comedian told The New York Times in 2013 that her family went bankrupt when she was 9.

Photos: Comedian Amy Schumer

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