Viola Davis shared how she got addictive to wigs and how she thought about her alopecia

Viola Davis is one of Hollywood’s most accomplished actresses. But even she struggles with everyday issues. Since she was 28, she has been troubled by Alopecia Areata.

In the Vulture magazine interview, this " How To Get Away With Murder" star, Viola Davis, shared how she got addictive to wigs and how she thought about her losing half her hair at the age of 28.

"I woke up one day and it looked like I had a Mohawk. Big splash of bald on the top of my head," she told Vulture magazine, "I was like, What is this? Until I found out it was stress related. That’s how I internalized it. I don’t do that anymore. My favorite saying in the world is, ‘The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.’ I am telling you, I have spent so much of my life not feeling comfortable in my skin. I am just so not there anymore."

Just like other people, losing half of hair is such a torture for her image and hurts her self-esteem, and that is why she "spent so much of my life not feeling comfortable in my skin." Because of the symptom of alopecia, she started to rely on wigs to cover her bald patches, and generally, wigs became one of the essential elements in her daily life. It seemed that she got addictive to wearing wigs as she refused to be seen without one on.

"I wore a wig in the Jacuzzi. I had a wig I wore around the house. I had a wig that I wore to events. I had a wig that I wore when I worked out. I never showed my natural hair. It was a crutch, not an enhancement … I was so desperate for people to think that I was beautiful. I had to be liberated from that [feeling] to a certain extent."

Even long after her alopecia had been treated, she still thought that she looked more presentable to other people when wearing wigs. But gradually, she began to free herself from those concerns at the 2012 Oscars when she appeared on the red carpet with a natural ‘do’. Here it does not mean that she did not wear a wig at that time, but "it’s an option … when it used to never be an option."