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Four months after Will Smith’s slap in the face of Chris Rock, the actor released a video this Friday in which he apologizes for his “unacceptable behavior” and offers his partner to talk whenever he wants. “I feel like shit,” says the actor in the video, his first public and forceful audiovisual apology after the event that occurred at the Oscar gala at the end of March -Smith had already apologized in a message on Instagram the day after of the event-
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“I texted Chris and he said he’s not ready to talk and when he is he will. So Chris I apologize my behavior was unacceptable and I’m here when you’re ready to talk.” actor.
At the time, “I wasn’t thinking about how many people would be hurt,” says Smith, who has specifically apologized to the actor’s mother and brother, Tony Rock, with whom he had “a great relationship.” “He was one of my own and this is probably irreparable,” she adds.
The Oscar winner has assured that he has spent the last few months “reproducing and understanding the nuances and the complexities of what happened at that time.” And “there’s not a part of me that thinks that was the right thing to do,” he says.
Smith further explains that after rolling his “eyes” at Rock’s comment about his shaved head, his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, didn’t tell him to do anything and it was he who made the decision on his own and hit the actor. He adds that this reaction was also due to his “own experiences” and his “history with Chris” Rock.
“Jada had nothing to do with it, I’m sorry,” says Smith, who also apologizes to his own family and all fellow nominees. “You voted for me and it really breaks my heart that I stole and tarnished the moment,” she says.
“I’m human and I made a mistake”
The Hollywood Academy decided in April not to withdraw the Oscar that the actor collected on March 27 for his role as Richard Williams in the film ‘The Williams Method’ (2021), but Smith will not be able to attend the awards ceremony or to any other event organized by this institution during the next ten years. “I’m trying to be sorry without being ashamed of myself. I’m human and I made a mistake, and I try not to think of myself as a piece of shit,” he says.
Chris Rock took the stage at the Dolby Theater to present the Oscar for Best Documentary and made a joke about the shaved head of Pinkett-Smith, who has publicly acknowledged that he suffers from alopecia, comparing it to Lieutenant O’Neil from Ridley Scott’s film . After Pinkett-Smith briefly closed her eyes in annoyance, her husband got up from her seat and went onstage to deliver a smack to Rock that went around the world and marred the rest of the show. gala.
According to the producer of the ceremony, Will Packer, the Los Angeles Police offered to arrest Smith, but Rock refused to press charges against the actor.
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