Prison Friends
To this day, Denzel Washington praises his mother’s decision to send him to military school. “That decision changed my life, because I wouldn’t have survived in the direction I was going. The guys I was hanging out with at the time, my running buddies, have now done maybe 40 years combined in the penitentiary. They were nice guys, but the streets got them.”
The Next Degree
When Denzel Washington went to college, he earned himself a Bachelor of Arts in Drama and Journalism. He took off a full semester to decide what to major in. Even the best have second thoughts.