Willow Smith Opens Up About Dad Will’s Oscar Slapping Incident


The 21-year-old and Emmy-nominated singer broke her silence on the controversial incident in an interview with Billboard published Friday, saying it didn’t derail her creativity or “shake me as much as my own internal demons.”

“I see my entire family as human, and I love and accept them for all of their humanity,” she told the publication. “Because of the position we find ourselves in, our humanity is sometimes not accepted, and we are expected to act in ways that are not conducive to healthy human life and that do not is not conducive to honesty.”

At the ceremony in March, Will Smith hit out at host Rock after the comedian made a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head as he presented the Best Documentary Oscar. Pinkett Smith suffers from hair loss due to autoimmune alopecia.

The ‘Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ star then walked off stage and shouted “leave my wife’s name out of your fucking mouth” from his seat.

Smith, 53, has since resigned from the Academy, which banned him from the awards show for 10 years.

Last month, after a social media hiatus, Smith said he was “deeply remorseful” about his actions in a video posted to his verified Instagram account.