Will Smith reveals in his forthcoming memoir that he once contemplated killing his father.
He writes in an excerpt published in People, “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. That moment in that bedroom, probably more than any other moment in my life, has defined who I am.”
Although the Men In Black star says his father, William Carroll Smith Sr., was “at every game, play and recital” when he was growing up, their relationship was complicated and the trauma of that moment stayed with him forever.