Viola Davis shares a picture of a childhood home on a former slave farm in St Matthews

The above is the house I was born in on August 11, 1965. It is the birthplace of my story.

Viola Davis shares a picture of a childhood home on a former slave farm in St Matthews

The above is the house I was born in on August 11, 1965. It is the birthplace of my story. Today in my fifty-fifth year  I own it ... it's all.

"I hope you live long enough to know why you were born."

- Cherokee's birth blessing- pic.twitter.com/CatJK405BL

- Viola Davis (@ violadavis) August 11, 2020

Calhoun County, South Carolina (Wolo) - Oscar-winning actress Viola Davis tweeted at her childhood home on a former slave farm in St. Matthews on Tuesday.

In a tweet and on an Instagram post marking her 55th birthday, Davis described her home at Singleton Plantation "the birthplace of my story."

She also said, "I own it ... all of it" in her post.

However, Davis later clarified her message by saying, “I don't own” above the house, I “own” my story !! Too abstract I think? "

In a 2016 interview with Jess Cagle, managing editor of Entertainment Weekly and PEOPLE, she shared more about her grandmother's house where she was born.

Davis said her family left the house shortly after her birth, but that she remembered the living conditions of her relatives in the house, which “has no running water. There are no bathrooms. It's just an outhouse.”

But Davis says that despite the bad environment, there was nothing but joy and celebration when she was born.

She has won an Academy Award, an Emmy and two Tony Awards for her acting work.

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