American actor, rapper, and film producer, Will Smith has opened up on why he once thought about murdering his father.
Smith said he almost killed his father to “avenge” his mother for the abuse she suffered.
The actor disclosed this in his new 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.
“My father was violent, but he was also at every game, play, and recital.
The actor’s parents eventually split when he was a teen and got divorced in 2000.
Recounting how he contemplated ending his father’s life, Smith wrote;
“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.”
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“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.” 53-years -old Smith wrotes.
