Actor Charlie Sheen donated $25,000 to the Tuscaloosa Disaster Relief fund, making good on his promise to raise money for Tuscaloosa after he visited the disaster-stricken city in May, according to the Associated Press.

Sheen created a fundraising website after visiting Tuscaloosa just days after the April 27 tornado. The website, Torpedoes Against Tornados, raised $10,000 in PayPal donations in the several months it was accepting donations. Sheen made a personal donation of $15,000 to bring the total to $25,000, according to the Associated Press.

Don Staley, director of the Tuscaloosa sports and tourism commission, spent the day with Sheen when he visited Tuscaloosa. He said he was not surprised Sheen followed through with his promised donation.

“He was grounded, sincere and compassionate,” Staley said. “I found out later people were bashing him, but what I saw was a guy that really wanted to be here and help.”

David Harris, a recent Alabama graduate who asked Sheen to visit Tuscaloosa via Twitter, also spent the day with Sheen when he was in Tuscaloosa. Harris said when Sheen didn’t go through with his pledge to organize celebrity fundraising events he doubted Sheen would make the donation he promised.

“There was a story done two or three months ago about how he came to Tuscaloosa and made all these promises for the celebrity baseball game and concert and none of it happened,” Harris said. “I thought he was going to just go away.”

Sheen toured the devastation in Tuscaloosa on May 2 with a caravan of national media outlets following his every move. “I want to bring the attention of the world down here and generate relief efforts that are fast and furious,” he told The Crimson White. “If [my being here] is a distraction for one minute for someone that lost their home or their loved one…then I think that’s a good thing. Distractions aren’t always bad, especially in times of absolute turmoil and crisis like this.”

Staley said the time Sheen spent with the people of Tuscaloosa was as valuable as his monetary donation.

“During that time, only a few days out from the tornado, everything was still an open nerve,” Staley said. “People needed any little bit of comfort they could get. He bought up every battery at Best Buy and every flashlight at K-Mart and gave away stuff, but what he really did was put smiles on people’s faces.”