Willard Carroll Smith-Senior: Last News

WILL SMITH has issued a grovelling public apology to Chris Rock – as he battles to save his career. The actor, whose Oscar win is “under review” following his now infamous slap, confirmed his behaviour was “unacceptable and inexcusable”.

Will Smith discussed one of the most traumatic moments of his life in the fifth episode of his YouTube docuseries Best Shape Of My Life, which was released Thursday.The 53-year-old actor had an emotional conversation with his mother Caroline Bright, in which he admitted to her that the only time he ever considered killing himself was after seeing her be brutally beaten by his father,Willard Carroll Smith Sr.The King Richard star said he felt like a 'coward' because he didn't try to stop the violence despite being the oldest child.He was only nine years old at the time of the beating and he was 13 when he considered taking his life.

Best Shape of My Life,” out Monday. As Smith, 53, set out to shed the more than 20 excess pounds he’d packed on by snacking throughout the pandemic, he also began shedding the weight of the childhood trauma and domestic violence he endured.“At eight-years-old Will began developing this concept of himself as a coward because he idly witnessed his father abuse his mother,” filmmaker Dexton Deboree told The Post. “He was the oldest of his siblings, but found himself so paralyzed by the sight of his dad [the late Willard Carroll Smith Sr.] hitting his mom [Caroline Bright, 78] that he couldn’t jump in to save her,” Deboree, 47, added of Smith — who recently revealed that he contemplated killing his father in order to “avenge” his mother shortly