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But as a young girl growing up in Central Falls, Rhode Island, Davis lived in extreme poverty. Her house had no plumbing, no phone, and was infested with rats. She's been candid about how she was so hungry she resorted to stealing food or diving for scraps in maggot-filled dumpsters.
As a child, the hunger would impact her basic ability to function. "I would go to school at 8 a.m., and by 8:15 I was sleepy, I couldn't wake up," Davis tells ET. "I remember I fell asleep during my SATs!"
But an "a-ha" moment that gave her something to work toward.
"I saw the [TV movie] The Autobiography of Miss. Jane Pittman with Cicely Tyson, so in the midst of all of that poverty, a dream was born," she says. "Your dreams have to be bigger than your circumstances."
Now, Davis is sitting down with ET's Nischelle Turner to discuss how her childhood inspired her to get involved for the second year in a row with Hunger Is, a joint initiative between The Safeway Foundation and the Entertainment Industry Foundation.
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