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Will Smith's dark family past

Politiko 2021-11-15 17:06:25

Will Smith's dark family past

Amid much emotion, actor Will Smith has revealed that for years he suffered from guilt because he believes he failed to protect his mother when he was a child when his father beat him to the ground at the family home in Philadelphia.

In his new book, Will, he recounts domestic abuse and called the traumatic attack a defining moment, according to an excerpt from the Sunday Times book.

"When I was nine years old, I saw my father hitting my mother on the side of the head so hard that she fell. I saw her blood, " Smith wrote in his book, which came out last Tuesday. that night in their house they continued.

Will Smith's dark family past

"Within everything I've done since then awards and accolades, the spotlight, the characters and the laughter there has been a subtle string of apologies to my mother for my inaction that day," says Smith.

"For her failure at that moment. For failing to face my father. To be a coward. ”

In his deeply emotional analysis of the incident, Smith reflects on his indecision to intervene.

"How we decide to respond to our fears, this is the person we become," the actor writes.

"I decided to be funny. I wanted to please her and calm her down, because as long as Daddio laughed and smiled, I believed we would be safe. I was the family entertainer. "I wanted to keep everything easy, fun and joyful."

Smith's father died in 2016.

He recently admitted to having suicidal thoughts while filming a YouTube series about fitness and weight loss and has aired the inner workings of his open marriage to wife Jada Pinkett.

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