Four months after slapping comedian Chris Rock in Oscar, he shocked the audience and urged him to ban him from attending the ceremony for a decade.Will Smith I posted a video He expressed regret for the incident on Friday and promised that he was doing a “personal job” to deal with his actions.
“Knowing that I couldn’t respond to people’s images and impressions hurt me psychologically and emotionally,” Smith said in a video. “I regret deeply and try to regret without being ashamed of myself, right? I am human and made a mistake.”
Smith, who resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences a few days after the ceremony, apologized to many in a six-minute video, including Rock, who joked about Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head. Before Mr Smith stood up and hit him on live TV. (Pinquet Smith is open about the fight against alopecia, a condition that leads to hair loss, and in a statement shortly after the incident, Smith said the joke about his wife’s medical condition was “I can’t stand it.” “.”)
“Chris, I apologize,” Smith said in the video. “My actions were unacceptable. I’m here whenever you’re ready to speak.”
Immediately after the attack, Smith won the Academy Award for Best Actor. In the video, he explained that he did not apologize to Mr. Rock during his speech. Because he was “cloudy” after the incident.
Smith later tried to contact Locke, but said the comedian wasn’t ready to speak and received a message to contact him when he was there. Smith apologized to Locke’s family, including his mother Rosalie Rock. TV interview “When you hurt my child, you hurt me,” he said.
He also apologized to his own family “about the heat I brought to all of us” and that the other candidates of the night hurt their moments.
Pinkett Smith talks very little about her experience that night, but last month she interviewed a woman whose 12-year-old daughter committed suicide, centered on an episode of an online talk show on alopecia, Red Table Talk. did. The result of bullying the state.
Regarding slap, Pinkett Smith said:
Locke hasn’t publicly discussed his response to the attack in detail, but he jokingly mentioned it at a comedy show in Brooklyn earlier this week. During some of his sets focused on the victims, he shook him off after Mr Smith slapped him and said, “I went to work the next day,” a persistent audience. I told the crowd that I urged them to applaud. Mr. Locke’s representative did not immediately respond to the request for comment.
In Friday’s video, Mr Smith seemed to be working to restore his reputation and reassure fans that his actions at the ceremony did not reflect his true appearance. At that moment. “
“I know it was shocking, but I promise you. I am deeply committed and committed to giving the world light, love and joy,” he concludes. rice field. “If you do your best, I promise you will be friends again.”
Melena Ryzik and Jason Zinoman contributed to the report.
