Wendy Davis, the Texas state senator who made headlines last year for her 13-hour filibuster on restricting abortion access, admitted in an interview that she fibbed some of the details about her life.
Davis, currently a candidate to become the next governor of Texas, told the Dallas Morning News that she needs be more careful with how she words things.
"My language should be tighter," the Democrat said in the interview published Sunday. "I'm learning about using broader, looser language. I need to be more focused on the detail."
The story of Davis' hard life is well known. It starts with Davis as a teenager working to support her single mother. Davis later became pregnant.
"I had a baby. I got divorced by the time I was 19 years old," Davis previously said, according the Dallas Morning News. "After I got divorced, I lived in a mobile home park in southeast Fort Worth."
Davis went on to receive scholarships that enabled her to later attend Harvard Law School.
"Some facts have been blurred," the Dallas Morning News reported. Davis was 21, not 19, when she got divorced. Also, her stay in the mobile home lasted only a few months before she moved in with her mother. Davis later moved into her own apartment with her daughter, Amber.
Davis' confession came at a price. The hashtag MoreFakeThanWendyDavis exploded on Twitter after the interview was published.
"#MoreFakeThanWendyDavis: Cher's awful cosmetic surgery obsession," David Morgan tweeted Monday.
Sly Dude tweeted: "#MoreFakeThanWendyDavis..The "trickle down" Theory."
The interview revealed that Davis did receive scholarships that her during her first years in college, but her new husband, Jeff Davis, paid for the last two years at Texas Christian University, the Dallas Morning News reported.
When Davis made it to Harvard, Davis "cashed in his 401(k) account and eventually took out a loan to pay for her final year there."
Davis said in the interview that she and her husband paid for her education together. The lawyer told the Dallas Morning News that people can relate to her and her struggles.
"Most people would identify with the fact that we tend to be defined by the struggles we came through than by the successes. And certainly for me that's true," Davis said. "When I think about who I am and how it's reflected in the things I worked on, it comes from that place."
