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Will Smith has apologized to Chris Rock in a new video.
His apology comes after he slapped him at the Oscars over a joke made about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.
A few months after the incident, Will has revealed that he is remorseful.
He stressed in the video that he is deeply remorseful—and apologized to Rock, his family and friends.
“It’s all fuzzy,” Smith said of that night. “I will say to you, Chris, I apologize to you. My behavior was unacceptable and I’m here whenever you’re ready to talk.”
He also disclosed that his wife did not ask him to slap Rock.
“I made a choice on my own from my own experiences, from my own history with Chris. Jada had nothing to do with it,” he said.
“I hate when I let people down. So it hurts, it hurts me psychologically and emotionally to know I didn’t live up to people’s image and impression of me,” Smith told viewers in the video confessional. “And the work I’m trying to do is, I am deeply remorseful and I’m trying to be remorseful without being ashamed of myself. I’m human and I made a mistake, and I’m trying not to think of myself as a piece of s**t.”
“I know it was confusing, I know it was shocking, but I promise you I am deeply devoted and committed to putting light and love and joy into the world,” he said, “and, you know, if you hang on, I promise we’ll be able to be friends again.”
“I spent the last three months replaying and understanding the nuances and the complexities of what happened in that moment,” Will Smith shared in the video.
“I’m not going to try to unpack all of that right now,” he said, “but I can say to all of you there is no part of me that thinks that was the right way to behave in that moment. There’s no part of me that thinks that’s the optimal way to handle a feeling of disrespect or insults.”
Watch the video below.
