Will Smith speaks on Wanting to Kill his Father for Abusing his Mother
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Will Smith's memoir is sure to be a bestseller considering the fervor over the recently published excerpts from the book.
In one excerpt, Will opened up about contemplating murdering his father after witnessing him physically abuse his mother. Will described his father as a complex character who was present at "every game, play, and recital," but his "violent" disposition and alcoholism terrorized the family.
“When I was nine years old, I watched my father punch my mother in the side of the head so hard that she collapsed,” he wrote. “I saw her spit blood. That moment in that bedroom, probably more than any other moment in my life, has defined who I am.”
He talked about the feeling of regret for not standing up for his mother in that moment. “Within everything that I have done since then — the awards and accolades, the spotlights and attention, the characters and the laughs — there has been a subtle string of apologies to my mother for my inaction that day,” he continued. “For failing her in the moment. For failing to stand up to my father. For being a coward. What you have come to understand as ‘Will Smith,’ the alien-annihilating MC, the bigger-than-life movie star, is largely a construction – a carefully crafted and honed character – designed to protect myself. To hide myself from the world. To hide the coward.”
In an excerpt published by Entertainment Tonight, Will explains how that feeling of cowardice forced him into contemplating killing his dad as payback.
“That when I was big enough, when I was strong enough, when I was no longer a coward, I would slay him,” he admitted. “I paused at the top of the stairs. I could shove him down, and easily get away with it. 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.”