Will Smith recalls how he “lost everything” before ‘The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air’

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Will Smith had his house and car seized and ended up in jail before he appeared in The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air.Speaking to Oprah Winfrey on Apple TV+’s The Oprah Conversation: Will Smith, the actor said he was in a “downward spiral” after getting into a fight at a radio station.In a clip from the show, referring to his new memoir Will (via Entertainment Tonight), Winfrey said: “So right before Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air, I think people would be surprised to know, this is the first time, I realised you basically lost everything.“The government seized your cars, it took your home, you ended up in jail.

You describe it in two words actually, ‘rock bottom.’ What was at the root of that downfall, Will? And the life lesson you took from it?”Smith,.