Actress Viola Davis has talked about trauma in her upcoming memoir.
Davis admitted that she has always been proud of her humble beginnings and has ‘never been afraid’ of living her truth. Her memoir titled, Finding Me talks of life moments where she had rocks thrown at her for being Black, dumpster dove for maggot-infested food, and reeked of urine because of a lack of clean laundry, on mornings when she had wet the bed.
Speaking of those life moments, Viola admitted, “Everything I’ve experienced is what connects me to the world. It’s given me an extraordinary sense of compassion. It’s reconciling that young girl in me and healing from the past — and finding a home.”
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She went on to say that she always thought acting defined her life, and it doesn’t. “What people in the world tell you is that if you find that thing that you do, that you are great at, then that’s it,” she added.
“I was still hiding a huge part of my story,” she admitted. “It’s almost like I reinvented all the things that I wanted to and tossed away the rest of it,” she maintained.
