Viola Davis Shares What She Would Tell Her Younger Self After Surviving Poverty and Trauma (Exclusive)
etonline.comViola Davis is opening up about her traumatic past, celebrating her glorious present and looking toward her bright future. The Academy Award-winning actress gives it all to her fans — «the truth straight, no chaser» — and more in her upcoming memoir, .
Speaking with ET's Kevin Frazier, Davis admitted that reliving her past for the book was «ultimately very cathartic» and it helped her understand herself from a new perspective.«I felt like I was in the middle of a really weird extensional crisis during the pandemic, a crisis of meaning,» she shared. «Like, 'What is this supposed to mean?' And by revisiting my childhood, the purest form of who I was, I sort of began to understand just who Viola was from the very beginning before the world touched her.
When I had dreams and hopes even with all of the trauma going on. The thing about it is the Viola of yesterday, even as hard as it looks, she survived.
She made it through [and] I needed her now.»In her candid memoir, Davis recalls a childhood spent in poverty, witnessing domestic abuse between her parents and being regularly bullied by classmates for her appearance and her family's way of life.
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