Hollywood actor Will Smith is revealing very deep personal things in his memoir including the time he contemplated killing his alcoholic, abusive father.
In an excerpt from his memoir “Will” the 53 year old singer cum actor shared the dynamics of the Philadephia home he shared with his father Willard Howard Snr, mother Caroline Bright and his two siblings.
“My father was violent, but he was also at every game, play, and recital. He was an alcoholic, but he was sober at every premiere of every one of my movies,” part of the memoir read.
“He listened to every record, he visited every studio. The same intense perfectionism that terrorized his family put food on the table every night of my life.”
He wrote that their relationship suffered an irreperable damage after he watched his father deliver a heavy blow to his mother’s head when he was 9-years-old.
“When I was nine years old, I watched my father punch my mother in the side of the head so hard that she collapsed. I saw her spit blood. That moment in that bedroom, probably more than any other moment in my life, has defined who I am.”
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His parents went their seperate ways in Will Smith’s teens and finalised their divorce in 2000.
Will Smith who cared for his father while he battled cancer in his later years said one night, while he was wheeling him, a dark thought arose him to avenge his mother’s suffering. He contemplated pushing his father down the stairs to end it all.
“That when I was big enough, when I was strong enough, when I was no longer a coward, I would slay him. I paused at the top of the stairs. I could shove him down, and easily get away with it,” he wrote in the memoir.
“I’m Will Smith. No one would ever believe I killed my father on purpose. I’m one of the best actors in the world. My 911 call would be Academy Award level.
As the decades of pain, anger, and resentment coursed then receded, I shook my head and proceeded to wheel Daddio to the bathroom.”
His father died in 2016.
Smith, who’s alsp a father of three has been very open about his personal life recently. In the trailer of his upcoming Youtube series, he shared that he contemplated suicide.
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