After this year’s Oscars were broadcast on TV screens at the end of March, there was one event in particular that made the audience open their eyes, which has now entered the history books.
Now Smith is opening up about an experience that made him doubt his career just before the Oscar brawl took place.
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– Want to throw up
It’s in an episode of David Lettermans (76) interview series “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction” that Smith opens up that he was terrified that his career would end, writes Variety and Insider.
For two years, Smith took a break from acting and decided to travel to Peru. There, he tried controversial ayahuasca several times, which according to Large Norwegian encyclopedia is an herbal tea used in ritual ceremonies by shamans and has a psychoactive effect.
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The actor places particular emphasis on one of the experiences with tea, which he describes as “a hell of a psychological experience”.
– I drank, I sat there, and then suddenly it was as if I started to see all my money fly away and my house flew away, and my career was over, he says about the experience, and adds:
– And I tried to get my money and my career. My whole life was ruined… I was in there and wanted to throw up and all that. And I heard a voice say, ‘This is what the hell it’s. This is what the hell life is. And I say “Oh shit.”
The 53-year-old also says that he suddenly heard his daughter Willow Smith (21) shout at him while she asked for help, but that he could not see her. Then the shaman asked him to take it easy and relax.
– And she (the shaman, editor’s note) told me: “Sit up”. Then I eventually stopped caring about my money, I just wanted to get to Willow, Smith explains, and continues:
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– I stopped caring about my house and my career. And got to the point where I was completely calm, but I still heard Willow scream, and my money was still flowing away. I was completely calm, even though there was a hell going on in my mind.
Furthermore, Smith said that the psychological journey gave him an important lesson, namely that no matter what life has to offer, he can handle it.
– I can handle any person I lose, I can handle everything that goes wrong in my life, I can handle anything in my marriage, I can handle everything that this life has to offer me.