Will Smith reveals guilt he felt after failing to protect mom from his abusive father

Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) Will Smith revealed that he has suffered from guilt because he believes he failed to protect his mother as a child when his father beat her to the ground in the family’s Philadelphia home. The “Men in Black” star recounts the domestic abuse in his new book “Will” and called the traumatizing attack a defining moment, according to an excerpt of the book published in the Sunday Times. “When I was nine years old, I watched my father punch my mother in the side of the head so hard… Read Full Article