{"id":1465551,"date":"2022-05-05T17:15:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T21:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1465551"},"modified":"2022-05-05T17:15:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T21:15:52","slug":"fact-check-did-denzel-washington-make-this-statement-about-breaking-generational-curses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-denzel-washington-make-this-statement-about-breaking-generational-curses\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Denzel Washington Make This Statement About Breaking \u2018Generational Curses\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-denzel-washington-make-this-statement-about-breaking-generational-curses%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1465551&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Stardustpoetry1\/posts\/559678642180987\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> over 14,000 times claims actor Denzel Washington once stated \u201cYour own family will talk shit about you when you\u2019re in the process of breaking all their generational curses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: False<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is no record of Washington making this comment. His publicist denied that he made the statement.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Check Your Fact has debunked numerous social media posts that misattribute quotes to celebrities such as <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/01\/24\/fact-check-morgan-freeman-stop-taking-tests-quote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Morgan Freeman<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/01\/05\/fact-check-betty-white-quote-balls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Betty White<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2019\/10\/29\/fact-check-bill-murray-lie-government-felony-politics-quote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bill Murray<\/a>. The latest target of the trend appears to be Washington.<\/p>\n<p>A viral April 28 Facebook post attributes a quote to him that reads, \u201cYour own family will talk shit about you when you\u2019re in the process of breaking all their generational curses. This ain\u2019t for the weak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The quote is misattributed. There are no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Denzel+Washington+%22Your+own+family+will+talk+shit+about+you+when+you%27re+in+the+process+of+breaking+all+their+generational+curses%22&#038;oq=Denzel+Washington+%22Your+own+family+will+talk+shit+about+you+when+you%27re+in+the+process+of+breaking+all+their+generational+curses%22&#038;aqs=chrome..69i57j0i433i512j46i433i512j0i433i512l3j0i512j0i433i512j0i512j0i433i512.5948j0j7&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">credible news reports<\/a> attributing the statement to him. An earlier iteration of the quote appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ayo_shakeria\/status\/1102230161850806273\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> in March 2019 with no attribution to any celebrity. Washington has no verified social media accounts where he might share such a message.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Nierob, Washington\u2019s publicist, told Check Your Fact in an email that the actor \u201cdid not make that statement.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/06\/25\/fact-check-denzel-washington-leaving-democratic-party-team-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did Denzel Washington Say He\u2019s Leaving The Democratic Party To Help \u2018Team Trump\u2019?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Washington did not express any negativity toward his late mother during a December 2021 episode of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iY2ct9y0WOQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/a>,\u201d but instead said, \u201cA mother is a son\u2019s first love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Check Your Fact previously <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/09\/10\/fact-check-denzel-washington-democrat-elites-blackmailed-liking-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debunked<\/a> a claim from September 2021 that suggested he issued a Telegram post accusing \u201cDemocrat elites\u201d of blackmailing him for respecting former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook over 14,000 times claims actor Denzel Washington once stated \u201cYour own family will talk shit about you when you\u2019re in the process of breaking all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":1481785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}