Viola Davis knows the devastating effects of poverty firsthand. Over the weekend, the “How To Get Away With Murder” actress, who grew up in “abject poverty,” shared a devastating story about the time her father was denied health care while suffering from a gall bladder infection. “He had an infection and he walked three miles to the hospital in 12-degree weather,” Davis said at the American Civil Liberties Union’s Bill of Rights Awards gala on Sunday. You don’t have access to health care. Her family was so poor that they couldn’t afford bus fare, and Davis often walked to school in shoes with holes so big that she was basically walking in socks.

Source: Huffington Post December 05, 2017 18:11 UTC