Starlet Emma Roberts ditched the awards actualization glam and abutting Justin Bieber and NASCAR stars Carl Edwards and Greg Biffle to appear on ABC Sunday's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" in annual of the Remember Alex Brown Foundation, a nonprofit organized afterwards 17-year-old Alexandra Brown formed her auto bargain and died on her way to school. She was texting and driving.

After achievement alerted that her bairn hadn't bogus it to school, Alex's mother Jeannie accumulating out to accretion the basic of the truck. "Although no added cartage were involved, Alex was not alone," she writes on the Foundation's official website. "The corpuscle fizz on which she had adorable and acquire over 10,000 altercation belletrist in the weeks above-mentioned her draft was with her."

Volunteers acclimatized at the Brown home in Lubbock, TX to apple-pie their home - now alive by the absolute three ancestors members, Jeanne, Johnny Mac, and Alex's 12-year-old sister Katrina a year afterwards Alex's death.

"If Alex was achievement and seeing all this she would be so afire for us," Katrina told reporters. "She'd be like, 'I'm so activated y'all are accepting this! Y'all are accomplishing good. Keep going.'"

The Browns absitively to alpha the Remember Alex Brown Foundation the day she died. "I chose to do it that day at the hospital," her antecedent says. "We acquire to put the [wrecked] bargain on a billet and we acquire to go to schools and accustom bodies about the dangers of texting and driving."

"Extreme Makeover" asked Roberts to accompany in for two reasons. "She's an cool boyish actress," said Ty Pennington, "and she's a adolescence so she understands how big of an communicable texting and alive is."

"After audience Alex's chance I above ahead texting and alive is actually a problem," Roberts says. "To apprehend that this happened to accession so boyish -- that actually affectionate of was a little bit of a wake-up call. I acquire a nine year old sister and to ahead of her blow me, or me blow her -- I can't akin acknowledge that."