![]() ![]() ![]() "Within everything I have done since then – the award and accolades, the spotlights and the attention, the characters and the laughs, there has been a subtle string of apologies to my mother for my inaction that day. That moment, in that bedroom, probably more than any other moment, has defined who I am today," he wrote. The cover was designed by New Orleans-based visual artist Brandan BMike Odums. He recalled one episode in particular when he was just 9 years old, watching as his father "punched my mother on the side of her head so hard that she collapsed". The 352-page memoir, which Smith wrote in collaboration with The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck author Mark Manson, was first announced by Penguin Random House back in 2018. Smith wrote that he "always thought of myself as a coward" for not intervening. ![]() He traced back that hurt to watching his father hurt his mother when he was a child, leaving him haunted by guilt. He wrote: "I'd been fighting all my life not to be a coward." Thanks to his new memoir, Will, hell also be known for talking openly about. In his memoir, Smith wrote that when his rap career began to fail, being pushed out by his long-time collaborator DJ Jazzy Jeff "activated my most violent trigger". Will Smith is an actor and entertainer known as much for his larger-than-life personality as for his films or music. In this weeks issue, PEOPLE has an exclusive excerpt from the book, out Nov. In this week's issue, PEOPLE has an exclusive excerpt from the book, out Nov. Not long after taking to the stage to slap Chris Rock, Will Smith returned to accept his Best Actor award. 'I felt totally unprepared for the emotional force of it,' Amy Weiss-Meyer says of Stay True, the 2022 memoir by the writer Hua Hsu (pictured). Will Smith wants to share the man and the father behind his celebrity persona in his candid new memoir, Will. Will Smith wants to share the man and the father behind his celebrity persona in his candid new memoir, Will. ![]()
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