Joe Manganiello shares his great-grandmother's (Terviz "Rose" Darakjian) harrowing survival story from the Armenian Genocide and the heartbreaking events that his great-grandmother endured.
"The Turks came into her home in 1915 under the guise of World War I and tried to enact the genocide that they had begun," he says. "They shot her husband dead, shot her. She laid on the ground, pretended that she was dead while seven other gunshots that went off, which were her seven children."
By playing dead, his great-grandmother was able to evade suspicion from the intruders. "She laid there unmoving and the Turks left the house and left the eighth child, who was an infant in the crib, to starve to ...