Will Smith Tears on Why He Slapped Chris Rock at the Academy Awards – The National

At the 94th Academy Awards ceremony in March, Will Smith opened up about assaulting comedian Chris Rock in his first late-night talk show appearance since “I heard slaps all over the world.”

While being a guest on Monday’s episode Daily Show with Trevor NoahSmith, 54, described the Oscars as a “terrifying night.”

“There’s a lot of nuance and complexity to it. But in the end, I lost it,” Smith said in an emotional interview. is not available to Canadian audiences.)

At the Oscars ceremony in March, Rock, 57, GI Jane It’s a joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. He suffers from alopecia, a skin condition that causes hair loss.Smith climbed onto the stage from his front row seat, swinging rock with his palms open and making a bang. Smith returned to his seat and he yelled at Rock, “Don’t mention my wife’s name!”

That same night, Smith won Best Actor for his role in King Richard.

Smith later apologized for slapping Rock. He was banned from the Academy Awards for ten years.

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upon daily show, Smith said, “I was going through something that night.” The actor didn’t specify what this was, but he made it clear that it didn’t justify his actions.

“My point is, you never know what someone is going through,” he said.

Still, Smith sympathized with the international uproar caused by the televised slap.

“I understand how shocking it was for people,” he said. “Gone. It was an anger that was bottled up for a really long time.

Smith also claimed that witnessing domestic violence as a child contributed to the attack on Locke.

There have been many things. It was a little boy who saw his father beat his mother. All of that bubbled up in that moment,” he said. “That’s not who I want to be.”

In March, just before the Oscars, Smith spoke to Gayle King about alleged domestic abuse.At the time, he claimed that “suffering” made him the person he is today.

Smith also published a memoir intention In 2021, he outlined his attempts to come to terms with past alleged domestic violence, including his own self-admitted desire to murder his late father.

Although he remains barred from the Academy Awards, Smith is already in talks for next year’s Best Actor nomination for portraying the real-life enslaved man known as “Whipped Peter” in the drama. releaseWidely circulated photographs of Peter’s bruised back increased the support of abolitionists during the Civil War.

Although Smith told Noah that it was “killing me” that people could refuse release Smith also said he “completely understands” as a result of his actions at the Oscars.

Next year’s Academy Awards will take place in March and will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.

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