Will Smith: Why I thought of killing my father

American Actor, Will Smith, has revealed that he once thought of killing his father. In an excerpt from his memoir, Will Smith disclosed that he contemplated killing his father, Willard Carroll Smith Sr, to avenge the abuse, his mother, Caroline Bright, endured. Ikoyi building collapse: How Corps member who redeployed from Borno lost her life […]

American Actor, Will Smith, has revealed that he once thought of killing his father.

In an excerpt from his memoir, Will Smith disclosed that he contemplated killing his father, Willard Carroll Smith Sr, to avenge the abuse, his mother, Caroline Bright, endured.

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The 53-year-old Actor, revealed how his early life with his parent affected his relationship with his father, whom he said had been battling cancer.

He said despite being violent, his father was supportive.

“My father was violent, but he was also at every game, play, and recital.”

“He was an alcoholic, but he was sober at every premiere of every one of my movies. He listened to every record. He visited every studio.

“When I was nine years old, I watched my father punch my mother in the side of the head so hard that she collapsed. I saw her spit blood.

“One night, as I delicately wheeled him from his bedroom toward the bathroom, a darkness arose within me. The path between the two rooms goes past the top of the stairs. As a child I’d always told myself that I would one day avenge my mother.

“I paused at the top of the stairs. I could shove him down, and easily get away with it. As the decades of pain, anger, and resentment coursed then receded, I shook my head and proceeded to wheel Daddio to the bathroom.”

Smith also reflected on his relationship with his father and his success as an entertainer.

“There is nothing that you can receive from the material world that will create inner peace or fulfillment.”

“In the end, it will not matter one single bit how well [people] loved you — you will only gain ‘the Smile’ based on how well you loved them.”