mea culpa statement to the comic late in the day Monday.“I would like to publicly apologize to you, Chris,” the rapper-turned-movie star wrote in a statement posted to Instagram.“I was out of line and I was wrong.
I am embarrassed and my actions were not indicative of the man I want to be,” he said.The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences failed to intervene in the attack or sanction Smith during the ceremony, but it denounced his actions in a statement and said a “formal review” of the incident was underway Monday.Whoopi Goldberg, a governor on AMPAS’s board, said Monday that Smith would not lose his trophy but was excepted to face punishment.“We’re not going to take it.
Well, there will be consequences, I’m sure. But I don’t think that that’s what they’ll be,” she said on “The View.”“Particularly because Chris said, ‘Listen, I’m not pressing any charges.’”Sunday’s incident wasn’t the first time Smith put hands on someone at a Hollywood gala.He slapped a prankster that tried to kiss him on the red carpet of the “Men in Black 3” premiere in 2012..
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