Popular American actor cum musician Will Smith has revealed that he once battled with the thought of killing his father to “avenge” the abuse suffered by his mother in the hands of his dad.
Will Smith revealed this in his new memoir “Me”. In excerpts which were published on People, the actor revealed the fraught setting of his early life in Philadelphia with his father, Willard Carroll Smith Sr., and mother Caroline Bright, and how it affected his later life with his father, whom he cared for while he was battling cancer.
The 53-year-old added that; “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.
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“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.”
While recounting how he contemplated ending his father’s life, the actor whose parents eventually split when he was a teen and got divorced in the year 2000 wrote; “One night, as I delicately wheeled him from his bedroom toward the bathroom, 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,” he added.
