Will Smith Says ‘Nobody’ in His Family Was ‘Happy’ After Finding Fame

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Will Smith opened up about how fame affected his family on the season 3 finale of Kevin Hart’s talk show, Hart to Hart, which aired on Thursday, August 3.During the sit-down, the Oscar winner, 54, described 2010 as “the greatest year as an artist [and] as a parent,” noting it was the year his son Jaden Smith’s film The Karate Kid hit theaters and his daughter Willow Smith’s debut single, “Whip My Hair,” was released.“I’m building this dream of a family I’ve had in my mind, [thinking] I’m going to do it better than my father did.

We’ve talked about it, my father was abusive,” said Will, who shares Jaden, 25, and Willow, 22, with wife Jada Pinkett Smith. “Pretty much 2010 to 2012 I had achieved everything I had ever dreamed.”Despite achieving the vision he had for himself and his loved ones, the Emancipation star admitted that “nobody in [his] family was happy” with their newfound fame.

He told Hart, 44, that his daughter was “the first one to begin the mutiny” and take a step back from the spotlight.“It was my first realization that success and money don’t mean happiness,” said Will, who also shares son Trey, 30, with ex-wife Sheree Zampino. “Up until that point, I really believed that you could succeed your way to a house and a family and that you could win your way to happiness. … I was driving the people around me in a way that I was leaving scorched earth around me.”In order to view the video, please allow Manage CookiesWillow, for her part, has previously spoken out about losing her sense of “sanity” after releasing “Whip My Hair” when she was 9 years old.“I had just, like, stopped doing singing lessons and I was kind of in this gray area of, ‘Who am I?