Chris Rock[/B] spoke inelegantly on Oscar 94 night about his wife Will Smith's haircut, who has alopecia. He wanted to make a joke, but he went through the motions.
Wile Smith got up, walked on stage and flashed him a magnificent slap, making everyone freeze. "Don't you ever put my wife's name in your f@@@ing mouth again," Smith yelled at him as soon as he sat down and while Rock was still rubbing his flushed cheek.
Then Smith, when he went to receive the statuette, cried and tried to justify his actions. He said he felt compelled to defend his wife and ended with the inimitable "Love makes you do crazy things."
Will Smith's personal story
Will Smith was born in Philadelphia in 1968. He is one of the best known actors in the world. He has been nominated five times for a Golden Globe and twice for an Oscar and has won four Grammy Awards. He is the only actor to have eight consecutive films grossing over $100 million at the domestic box office.
In his autobiography published in 2021, he describes at length the horrific domestic violence that he and his three siblings witnessed his father, William, inflict on his mother, Caroline.
"When I was 9 years old," he writes, "I saw my father punch my mother in the side of the head, and she collapsed. He left her unconscious. I saw her spit up blood. That was also the moment that has defined my life more than any other."
He also wrote that it was not the violence that scarred him, but his own inaction in the face of that violence. "I owe my mother an apology for doing nothing. I was a coward. I failed to stand up to my father."
And he continues: "I may be a star. But I have learned to hide myself from the world to hide the coward in me." Will's parents had a dramatic divorce in 2000.
Will maintained a close relationship with his father whom he says he not only hated, but wanted to kill: "When he got cancer and was in a wheelchair it crossed my mind many times to kill him. One day I was at the top of the stairs and I thought about throwing him down to get his ass kicked. Thank God I didn't. But I always wanted to get revenge on him for my mother."
Some say that this act of hitting Chris Rock for even verbally attacking his wife has to do with Smith's difficult childhood, who, when he heard bad language, brought up his father and mother.
Source: in.gr
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