Viola Davis shares her powerful testimony in her Cecil B. DeMille Award acceptance speech

(CNN) – Viola Davis shared her journey from poverty to being an EGOT winner, leaning into the “magic” that helped her earn the Cecil B. DeMille Award ahead of Sunday’s Golden Gala: A Celebration of Excellence at The Beverly Hilton.The acclaimed actress said she felt like “someone just set me on fire” when she took to the stage to accept award, which honors those who have made “outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment.” She thanked her friend and presenter, Meryl Streep, whom she called “a great broad” before launching into her speech.Related Stories “This is my testimony,” she said. “I think I decided to be an actor because acting was just a cosmic carrot for a much higher journey. A journey into finding me, finding a sense of belonging, finding my worth.”Davis said she saw life as “a big, fat f**king dude” who had “endless amounts of gold that is just falling down randomly.”Gold she saw as blessing to some people “who don’t deserve it” and didn’t work for it and others who actually worked for it. Such a blessed life was not how Davis started.“I was born into a life that just simply did not make sense. I...