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Will Smith opened up to Trevor Noah about the now-famous slap at the Oscars in March during an appearance on “The Daily Show” that aired Monday night.
While promoting his upcoming film “Emancipation”, Smith called it “a terrible night” and said that was when he “lost it”. stormed the stage and slapped presenter Chris Rock.
“And I guess what I would say is, you never know what someone is going through,” Smith said. “I was doing something the other night. Not that this justifies my behavior at all.
Smith said the most painful thing for him was that his actions made it “hard for other people”.
“And it’s like I get the idea where they say people get hurt,” he said.
Smith said, “It was an anger that had been bottled up for a really long time.”
Noah spoke about how Smith wrote about growing up being afraid of conflict in his memoir, and the talk show host also took note of the negative things that have been said about Smith and his family on the internet.
Smith replied, ‘It was a lot of things. “He was the little boy who saw his father beat his mother, you know. It all just bubbled up in that moment.
Smith said that who he was in that moment “wasn’t who I want to be.”
In July, Smith addressed the slap and publicly apologized on social media,
Academy approves Smith He was banned from attending the Oscars for the next 10 years.