Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith have hit the headlines after the Hollywood leading man struck comedian Chris Rock in the face for making a joke about his wife at the Academy Awards. It was a moment that shocked the world watching the ceremony live.
S mith later went on to win the Oscar for best actor as event for his performance in the tennis biopic King Richard. After receiveing the award., he apologised, using his best actor acceptance speech to say: “I want to apologise to the Academy, I want to apologise to all my fellow nominees.”
But he then went on to say: “I’m being called on in my life to love people and to protect people and to be a river to my people. I know to do what we do you’ve got to be able to take abuse, you’ve got to be able to have people talk crazy about you in this business. You’ve got to be able have people disrespecting you and you’ve got to smile and pretend like that’s OK.”
