That's Oscar winner Viola Davis,
doing a little skydiving for the
first time.
>> Viola is a paid spokesperson
for Merck & company, we'll get
to that in a second.
Do you have a bucket list?
What else is on it?
>> A lot.
I think I hit one of them.
I feel like a boss because of it
I have to tell you, I have a
swagger about me.
>> By the way, I hated every
second of it, I didn't enjoy it.
I didn't feel free, I just
wanted to be -- you can't
breathe when that.
>> Nobody tells you won't be
able to breathe.
>> Yeah, they don't say that,
they don't say it's cold.
I felt like it was the closest
I'm ever going to get to flying.
>> What about swimming with
sharks, will we see you with a
camera phone?
>> What did your daughter say
about you skydiving?
>> My daughter says, mammy, I
don't know why you'd want to do
something like that just in
case, I want your money, I want
your wigs and the make-up.
>> Only get one.
>> It's so good to see you.
You're talking about the strug
ems that your family has gone
through as far as the health is
concerned.
What was going on.
What was happening?
>> Well, I'm narrating this
documentary as you call the
touch of sugar.
It's about confronting the
diabetes crisis in America.
84 million suffer from
prediabetes.
My family has been so affected
by it, I have two sisters, with
type II diabetes.
I have an aunt who died from
diabetes after having both her
legs amputated.
I was diagnosed about a year and
a half ago with prediabetes.
It's so pervasive in this
country.
And it's a shroud of silence
around it.
So I really wanted to partner
and narrate this film, sort of
igmatize it.
Especially when the numbers are
so high.
Since sharing my story.
So many people have come up to
me sharing their testimony about
diabetes.
If you're diagnosed with cancer,
people tell you about chemo,
radiation.
Diabetes, there's nothing.
>> It's so true, I don't know
what it is.
One in ten adults are diagnosed.
What are some tips we can know
to avoid diabetes?
>> Okay.
First of all, you can go to the
website touch of sugar film.com.
It's a wealth of information.
Now, everyone's diabetes is
different.
Some people have a genetic code.
I have a genetic code.
But certainly sugary foods,
sodas, exercising more.
Sodium intake.
All of those things -- I thought
I was doing everything right.
I have to say.
But when you have a really
really busy schedule as I do.
I have an 8-year-old daughter, I
have a TV show, sometimes you
can get lacksadaisical.
Eating fruit is not bad, but
eating fruit when you're
susceptible to diabetes, eating
pounds of grapes at 2:00 in the
morning.
That's what I would do just to
keep myself awake after working
long hours.
It's a self-care involved with
diabetes.
You have to be a warrior about
your health.
But there's got to be a support
team out there --
>> I love that, be a warrior
about your health.
>> I love your voice.
You're a warrior.
I'm all in to anything you say,
and I will drink it.
>> I've been on a plane, and
your voice has come on during
the flight.
I'm good.
I don't know what's about to
happen, but we're good.
>> We do want to take a look at
the documentary.
>> A touch of sugar.
>> More than 30 million ame
Americans live with diabetes.
You.
>> Have to do what you have to
do.
It's not a disease that goes
away, it's 365 days a year, 24
hours a day.
>> Everyone needs to watch that.
>> There's a picture of you and
your husband, who we are crazy
about, and your daughter.
Are you still hot tubing before
big events?
Every time I get you on the red
carpet, we're straight out of
the hot tub.
>> Always, that is like, listen,
I mean, that's see, listen,
something like that is in my
will.
I need my hot tub.
My husband, I think that's how
we bond, that's why we've been
married so long.
You know --
>> I think about your life and
where you are now, and how open
you've been about your childhood
and how different that was.
You know, you talk about
being -- growing up in Rhode
Island, intense poverty,
wondering sometimes where your
next meal would come from.
When you look back at some of
those pictures, some of these
photos now.
What would you tell that young
girl who maybe was about to go
to bed hungry one night.
What would you say to her and
how her life change?
>> I would tell her that she was
beautiful.
I mean, I miss that.
I miss people pouring into me
and telling me that I was
also you touched on something
beforehand.
I watched you, about connection,
and about how we need to love
each other more.
I could not be where I am right
now without help, without just a
tribe of people who constantly
carried me every step of the
way.
We say that too much to people,
go it alone, it's all on you.
It's on us.
It's on us to be better with us.
>> And kindness goes.
So far.
VI
Viola, we put up a picture of
you as a little girl.
Is it true you only have one
picture from when you were
young?
>> That's it.
You know, the -- there's no
other pictures, a lot of them
were lost.
Some were taken, but that little
girl, literally, that's the
image I have of myself now when
I get out of bed in the morning,
when I open the refrigerator and
I see food, you know, when I
have a warm bed to sleep in,
when I -- it's -- she's amazing
to me now, because she keeps me
honest, and she reminds me that
you literally can dream big.
You really can.
You can dream big, work hard and
literally, god delivers.
>> Yeah, he does.
>> Every time.
>> Viola, we absolutely adore
you.
Tell genesis we said hello.
Did you do anything fun for
spring break?
>> We went to disneyland.
>> It is always so good to see
you, Viola, we love you.
>> When you get back to L.A.
We're going to come hang out,
all right?
>> All right, listen.