How Prayer Strengthens This Hollywood Power Couple’s Marriage
Movieguide® Contributor
Denzel and Pauletta Washington just celebrated 41 years of marriage thanks to “a lot of prayers.”
“We work at it. It’s work,” Pauletta told PEOPLE on the red carpet for THE PIANO LESSON, which Denzel helped produce and their son, Malcolm, directed. “It’s not that you sit there and you go like, ‘Oh, you know…’ ”
“There are a lot of prayers for strength for staying in a forgiveness mode and both parts, mine and his,” she said. “But it’s the basic love that we have for each other.”
Their son Malcolm is “trying” to get the recipe for their successful marriage.
“I don’t know, they love each other, but I don’t know what the secret is,” he said. “I’m trying to find out.”
Movieguide® reported on the Washington’s marriage in January:
The actor prioritizes faith in all areas of his life, including marriage.
“By the grace of God,” Washington said when asked how he and his wife Pauletta have survived marriage in the spotlight. “Really, I’m not taking credit,” he replied. “And a great wife. A strong, strong, strong (woman) … she has done the heavy lifting. She has been the consistent one. She has given daily religious instruction. She makes breakfast, she took them to school. I was out killing the lion, bringing home the meat, you know, providing.”
Denzel often credits Pauletta when he speaks about his wife to others. Denzel told Tom Brady on Brady’s radio show last year that he’s abundantly grateful for her.
“I’m thankful and I have been blessed beyond measure with the greatest woman in the world, who not only is a beautiful woman and a great wife and I love her, great mother of our children, but she holds everything together,” the Teddy Bear Award® winning actor said.
The couple doesn’t just pray in their marriage. They pray for others, for things they need in other areas of life and pray thanks to God.
Denzel spoke to some young actors about the importance of prayer in 2014.
“I pray that you all put your shoes way under the bed at night so that you gotta get on your knees in the morning to find them,” he quipped. “And while you’re down there, thank God for grace and mercy and understanding. We all fall short of the glory. We all got plenty.”
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