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4 months after he infamously slapped Chris Rock on the Oscars for joking about his spouse and was promptly banned from attending the occasion for 10 years, Will Smith is prepared for individuals to forgive him.
In a six-minute YouTube video posted Friday, Smith apologized on digicam for the primary time to Rock, Rock’s household, his circle of relatives, his fellow Oscar nominees, and to his followers who he stated he had dissatisfied.
“I’ve reached out to Chris and the message that got here again is that he’s not prepared to speak and when he's, he'll attain out,” Smith stated. “So I'll say to you Chris, I apologize to you. My conduct was unacceptable and I’m right here everytime you’re prepared to speak.”
He answered a number of questions within the video, similar to why he didn’t apologize in his acceptance speech later that night time and whether or not his spouse Jada advised him to do something after she rolled her eyes at Rock’s alopecia joke.
“I made a alternative by myself from my very own experiences from my historical past with Chris,” he stated. “Jada had nothing to do with it, sorry babe.”
Smith stated he had been reflecting on the incident for 3 months, and had been attempting to not “consider myself as a chunk of shit” within the course of.
“Disappointing individuals is my central trauma,” he stated. “I hate after I let individuals down so it hurts, it hurts me psychologically and emotionally to know I didn’t stay as much as individuals’s picture and impression of me. The work I’m attempting to do is, I'm deeply remorseful, and I’m attempting to be remorseful with out being ashamed of myself.”