Viola Davis gave herself a particularly meaningful present to celebrate her 55th birthday. In a tweet she posted on Tuesday, the “How to Get Away With Murder” star shared a photo of a dilapidated shack, revealing it to be “the house where I was born August 11, 1965.
It is the birthplace of my story.” According to Davis, she is now the owner of the South Carolina home in which she took her first breath. “Today on my 55th year of life… I own it… all of it,” she wrote.
RELATED: Viola Davis On How Her ‘Entire Life Has Been A Protest’: ‘It’s A Part Of My Voice’ She concluded by quoting a “Cherokee Birth Blessing” that read, “May you live long enough to know why you were born.” Davis previously talked about her birthplace in A 2016 interview
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