Will Smith Tearfully Apologizes for Outburst While Accepting Best Actor Oscar: 'Love Will Make You D

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Do Crazy Things'

While accepting his Oscar for Best Actor, Will Smith apologized to the Academy and to his fellow nominees for striking presenter Chris Rock on the stage of the Dolby Theatre.

Smith did not directly apologize to Rock, but he made a comparison to his character Richard Williams in "King Richard" by saying that the father of Venus and Serena Williams was a "fierce defender of his family."

"I want to apologize to the Academy, I want to apologize to all my fellow nominees. This is a beautiful moment, and I am not crying for winning an award. It's not about winning an award for me," Smith said following a standing ovation. "Art imitates life. I look like the crazy father, just like Richard Williams ... but love will make you do crazy things."

He continued: "I'm being called on in my life to love people and to protect people and to be a rigor to my people. I know to do what we do, you got to be able to take abuse, you have to be able to have people talk crazy about you. You got to be able to have people disrespecting people, and you gotta smile and pretend like that's OK," Smith said. "And Denzel said to me a few minutes ago, 'At your highest moment, be careful, that's when the Devil comes for you.' I want to be a vessel for love. I want to say, thank you to Venus and Serena … I want to thank them for trusting me with their story. I want to be an ambassador for that kind of love, care and sure."

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[Drum]

1. Pffft

[LexVegas]

2. Smith is a fierce defender of his family?

[Croney]

3. How many battered women have heard the phrase, "Love will make you do

crazy things?"

[tinrobot]

9. Exactly. Makes me wonder how many other people Will has slapped.

[txwhitedove]

16. Yes. The armchair quarterbacks talking toxic masculinity last night was upsetting.

The guy who says "that was just a joke", often goes right before the physical abuser, mental and physical together.

[oregonjen]

4. He sounds like an abusive narcissist

“I’m sorry, but you made me do it” kind of abusive excuse. Not okay.

[catsudon]

5. How is Will Smith allowed to stay in the venue where he just strike someone on live TV.

Like, seriously? And on top of that they let him accept an award?

that's like if the Mom of the spoiled kid who is allowed to do whatever he wants, doesn't punish the kid in any way for bullying another kid, gives him a treat immediately for being such a good boy otherwise, then reassures everybody "I don't condone the bullying though"

[LexVegas]

6. Hollywood rich man privilege. nt

[Mysterian]

7. Violence is OK!

Most of the stinking movies they make are full of it.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. Didn't look like much of a hit to me

So perhaps many felt it was staged. But then I wasn't on the receiving end of it.

[dixiechiken1]

8. "I want to be a vessel for love." 😳😳😳

Then do better. Be better.

What a bunch of crap. He showed his ass.

[cemaphonic]

10. Didn't manage to apologize to the one person he owed it to

What a childish and shameful display.

Rock handled the whole thing with class and decorum, even though I agree that the initial joke was a little mean-spirited.

[Bettie]

13. It was only mean-spirited if he actually knew

that her hair wasn't a choice, but a disorder.

It isn't exactly headline news, so I'm going with him probably not knowing.

[cemaphonic]

17. Yeah, that's true

News to me, since I haven't paid much attention to any of the Smiths in years, but the reaction to the incident is making it seem like it was common knowledge.

Either way, Smith's behavior was inexcusable.

[Chautauquas]

11. He forgot to add

he's willing to smack people upside the head if they say something he doesn't like.

[Iggo]

12. Punk.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

15. Lotta jumping to conclusions on this thread. It's okay to be uncomfortable with violence without

inventing pathological abuse scenarios.

[TreasonousBastard]

18. Who actually gives a ahit?

[Paladin]

19. To hell with Will Smith. I don't want to hear his whimpering. (nt)