Will Smith has a on YouTube video posted his apologies to Chris Rock. The actor slammed the comedian at the Oscars after Rock made a joke about Smith’s wife.
Smith explains that he deliberately kept media silence for a while after the March 27 incident. Oscar presenter Rock then joked about GI Janea film in which Demi Moore plays the title role with cropped hair.
He was referring to Jada Pinkett Smith’s hairstyle, a result of alopecia, a condition that causes a person to become partially or completely bald. Her husband was furious. After slapping Rock live on the broadcast, the actor said: “Keep my wife’s name out of you fucking mouth.”
Smith decided to record a video in which he answers the most frequently asked questions about the incident.
The actor starts with the most frequently asked question: why he didn’t apologize during his acceptance speech, which followed after Smith took home the Best Actor Oscar. In his acceptance speech, the actor did say sorry, but this was addressed to the Academy (the organization of the Oscars). Rock was not mentioned. “I was completely confused then,” Smith explains now.
The actor has since contacted Rock. “But he says he’s not ready for that yet. He’ll let you know if he is. So, with this: Chris, I apologize,” continues Smith. “My behavior was unacceptable and I’ll be there for you when you’re ready to talk.” The American also apologizes to Rock’s family. “I didn’t think at the time how many people I would hurt with this action.”
Smith was not urged on by wife
Smith says he has “replayed everything in his head for the past three months”. “I wanted to understand the nuances and the complexity of what exactly happened. I’m not going to unravel that now, but I can say: nothing in me thinks that my behavior was the right choice. way to respond to a joke.”
He explains that he was not urged by his wife to hit Rock, something many people suspected because she rolled her eyes after the joke. “That was my own choice,” says the actor. He also apologizes to her, his children, his fans and the other Oscar nominees. “Disappointing people is a deep-seated trauma of mine. I hate to disappoint people.”
A few days after the incident, Smith announced that he was giving up his membership in The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. As a result, he can no longer vote for the Oscars and is not allowed to visit the event for the next ten years. However, Smith can be nominated for the film prize.