Viola Davis is speaking out after the loss of Cicely Tyson, who played her mother on the ABC series How to Get Away with Murder.
The Oscar-winning actresses also worked together in the 2011 movie The Help, in which Cicely played the role of Constantine Bates, the maid who raised Emma Stone‘s character and was fired after an incident when her daughter showed up at her place of work. “I’m devastated.
My heart is just broken,” Viola wrote on her Instagram account. She continued, “I loved you so much!! You were everything to me!
You made me feel loved and seen and valued in a world where there is still a cloak of invisibility for us dark chocolate girls.
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