On her 55th birthday Tuesday, actress Viola Davis proudly shared a photo of the now-dilapidated house on a South Carolina plantation where she was born.  

“The above is the house where I was born August 11, 1965,” the Academy Award winner wrote on Instagram. “It is the birthplace of my story. Today on my 55th year of life....I own it....all of it.”

She also quoted a Cherokee birth blessing: "May you live long enough to know why you were born.”

Davis had to clarify her comments after some people thought she was saying she purchased the home. 

"Uhh....contrary to websites....I do not 'own' above house, I 'own' my STORY!! Too abstract I guess," she wrote.

Davis’ grandfather was a sharecropper on the plantation in St. Matthews, South Carolina. In a 2016 interview with People and Entertainment Weekly, Davis said her family moved out of the house soon after her birth. 

“I went back to visit briefly, but still not aware of the history," she said. "I think I read one slave narrative of someone who was on that plantation, which was horrific.”

In the interview, the “Fences” actress said the home had just an outhouse for a restroom and no running water. But she added the house hosted a joyous celebration when she was born.

"My mom says that the day I was born, all of my aunts and uncles were in the house," she said. "Everyone was drinking and laughing, and having fun. She said she ate a sardine, mustard, onion, tomato sandwich after I was born. I love that story. It’s a great story to me. It’s a great story of celebration in the midst of what you would feel is a decimated environment, but you could see the joy and the life that can come out of that, because it’s not always about things, you know."