Will Smith BANNED from Oscars for 10 years RESPONDS: 'I Accept and Respe...
The Academy’s Board of Governors met Friday and after the vote, the Academy President and CEO said, “The Board [of Governors] has decided, for a period of 10 years, from April 8, 2022, Mr. Smith shall not be permitted to attend any Academy events or programs, in person or virtually, including but not limited to the Academy Awards.”
He continues with an Academy mea culpa … “During our telecast, we did not adequately address the situation in the room. For this we are sorry. This was an opportunity for us to set an example for our guests, viewers, and our Academy family around the world, and we fell short — unprepared for the unprecedented.”
The Prez went on to thank Chris Rock … “We want to express our deep gratitude to Mr. Rock for maintaining his composure under extraordinary circumstances.”
TMZ broke the story … our sources told us the Academy lied about asking Will to leave the Dolby Theater after the slap. Turns out it was the exact opposite … as the show’s producer Will Packer told Will he could stay.
The Academy was slammed for getting caught in a lie, so this disciplinary hearing also served as its best way to make good for an, at best, fumbled response.
Will had also been dealing with the fallout — a bunch of his projects are now on ice and he already resigned from the Academy.
Chris has been mostly mum over the whole thing, telling a crowd on his comedy tour he was still processing things … but his brothers have come out hard against Will, even calling for the Academy to take back his Oscar.
Jada Pinkett Smith says she ‘didn’t wanna get married’ in resurfaced clip with Will Smith
Jada Pinkett Smith recalled ‘crying down the freaking aisle’ at her ‘horrible’ shotgun wedding to Will Smith in a resurfaced clip from her show Red Table Talk. Will is awaiting a decision from the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Science about his potential penalty for slapping Chris Rock onstage at the Oscars over a joke he made about Jada. Now a 2018 episode of Red Table Talk has begun circulating online where Will appeared as a guest and Jada insisted she ‘never wanted to get married.’ So let’s get into it.
Will has been a guest multiple times on the talk show, which Jada hosts with her mother Adrienne ‘Gammy’ Banfield-Norris and daughter Willow Smith. The series hit the headlines in 2020 when Jada brought Will on to discuss her extramarital ‘entanglement’ with the rapper August Alsina. August has since wrote a rap about the entanglement and a rumoured tell-all book, which he denies he’s going to write.
Since then Will has argued in GQ that ‘marriage for us can’t be a prison’ and revealed ‘Jada never believed in conventional marriage.’ Before Jada, Will Smith was married to Sheree Zampino, with whom he shares his 29-year-old firstborn son Trey Smith.
Will has written frankly in his memoir about the tortured family life he experienced as a child when he watched his father physically abuse his mother.
‘When I was nine years old, I watched my father punch my mother in the side of the head so hard that she collapsed,’ he wrote. ‘I saw her spit blood.’
Another clip reemerged this week in which Jada ambushed Will by asking him about their marriage for Instagram Live in order to promote a Red Table Talk episode with psychotherapist and relationship expert Esther Perel.
The clip caused a storm on Reddit, with commenters calling Jada an ‘abuser’ and observing how ‘broken’ and ‘tormented’ Will looked.
During this year’s Oscars, Will marched onstage and slapped Chris Rock for making a bald joke about Jada, who shaved her head because she has alopecia. Will was seen initially laughing at the joke, but Jada rolled her eyes and then he took to the stage to give Chris a smack across the face. Then Will flounced back to his seat and repeatedly screamed at Chris: ‘Keep my wife’s name out of your f***ing mouth!’
Less than an hour after his outburst, Will was awarded the best actor Oscar and received a standing ovation for his tearful speech in which he called himself a protector of his family and expressed a desire to be a ‘vessel of love.’
Although he apologized to the Academy and his fellow nominees during his speech, he did not issue a public apology to Chris until the following day.
Last week, before the Academy could decide what punishment it should impose for the incident, Will resigned from the organization.
Although his departure means he can no longer vote for the Oscars, he can still be nominated for and win them and can still attend the show.
The Academy’s board of governors is meeting this Friday with regard to ‘possible sanctions’ for Will, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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