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Will Smith said he “just lost it” when he slapped comedian Chris Rock on Oscars night in his first late-night interview since the infamous slap earlier this year.
“I was gone,” Smith said on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.”
“That was a rage that had been bottled for a really long time,” Smith said.
The actor told Noah he was “going through something” and lost his cool that night.
“That was a horrific night as you can imagine,” he said. “There’s many nuances and complexities to it, you know, but at the end of the day, I just — I lost it and I guess what I would say [is] you just never know what somebody’s going through.”
Smith didn’t identify what troubles he was dealing with during the awards ceremony — but said a lot of things he had been feeling came to a head all at once.
None of it justified his actions, Smith said.
