Actor Will Smith After months of being out of public life, she appeared on television again and talked about the slap again. gave it to comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars earlier this year.
“There’s a lot of complexity and nuance behind it, but At the end of the day I lost my mind and I guess I’ll say you never know what someone is going through. (…) and I was going through something that night, although that doesn’t justify what I did,” Smith said on Trevor Noah’s “The Daily Show.”
Smith made these remarks just days after the release of his next movie, ‘Emancipation’, which marked his return to the screens after almost a year of inactivity after the event.
The actor starred at the 2022 Oscars when he punched The Rock on stage at the Dolby Theater after joking about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett, being bald.
Minutes later, Smith received his Oscar for his performance in ‘King Richard’ (2021).
Returning to television Monday night, Smith said March 27 was the best and worst day of his life.
“I learned that we have to be kind to each other, it’s hard and I think the most painful thing for me was that I risked my difficulties to make the path difficult for others, I understood the phrase: hurting people hurts others people‘, he explained.
Despite Smith’s public apology at the time and his resignation from the Academy, the institution agreed to ban him from accessing the Oscars for ten years.