Will Smith has shared an apology video addressing his altercation with Chris Rock at the Oscars 2022.
Four months after Smith slapped the comedian onstage at the Oscars ceremony in March for a joke Rock made about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, the actor shared a five-minute video titled \u2018It\u2019s Been A Minute\u2026\u2019 to address questions surrounding the incident.
The opening text for the video reads: \u201cOver the last few months, I\u2019ve been doing a lot of thinking and personal work\u2026 You asked a lot of fair questions that I wanted to take some time to answer.\u201d
In the video, Smith says: \u201cI\u2019ve reached out to Chris and the message that came back is he\u2019s not ready to talk and when he is, he will reach out.\u201d
He added: \u201cI will say to you, Chris. I apologise to you. My behaviour was unacceptable and I\u2019m here whenever you\u2019re ready to talk.
\u201cI want to apologise to Chris\u2019 mother. I saw an interview that Chris\u2019 mother did, and that was one of the things about that moment\u2026 I just didn\u2019t realise, I wasn\u2019t thinking about how many people got hurt in that moment.
\u201cSo I want to apologise to Chris\u2019 mother. I want to apologise to Chris\u2019 family, specifically [his brother] Tony Rock. We had a great relationship. Tony Rock was my man. And this is probably irreparable.\u201d
Addressing the question of whether wife Jada asked him to \u201cdo something\u201d following the joke, Smith replied: \u201cNo. It\u2019s like I made a choice on my own, from my own experiences, from my history with Chris. Jada had nothing to do with it.\u201d
At the end of the video, Smith reiterated his previous apologies following the incident.
\u201cIt hurts me emotionally and psychologically to know I didn\u2019t live up to people\u2019s image and impression of me,\u201d Smith said. \u201cThe work I\u2019m trying to do is I am deeply remorseful and I\u2019m trying to be remorseful without being ashamed of myself. I am human and I made a mistake. \u201cI\u2019m trying not to think of myself as a piece of shit. So I would say to those people, I know it was confusing, I know it was shocking, but I promise you I am deeply devoted and committed to putting light and love and joy into the world. If you hang on, I promise we\u2019ll be able to be friends again.\u201d
After the altercation and numerous apologies, Smith resigned from the Academy in April this year. He was later banned from all Academy events for 10 years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Will Smith has shared an apology video addressing his altercation with Chris Rock at the Oscars 2022.Four months after Smith slapped the comedian onstage at the Oscars ceremony in March for a joke Rock made about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, the actor shared a five-minute video titled \u2018It\u2019s Been A Minute\u2026\u2019 to address questions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":284965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}