Will Smith

Will Smith said that he saw his career and money “flying away” after he took ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic drink, before he slapped Chris Rock during Oscars ...

I can handle anything that this life has to offer me.” “And I’m in there and I’m wanting to vomit and all of that, and I hear a voice saying: ‘This is what the (expletive) it is. “This is my fear in real life,” he admitted.

'My house is flying away and my career is gone away,' he recalled seeing during ayahuasca trip.

“I stopped caring about my house, I stopped caring about my career… With the shaman’s help, he began to relax. “You’re not hallucinating,” he explained.

In a sit-down conversation with David Letterman, actor Will Smith said he had a premonition that his career would be “destroyed” sometime before he slapped ...

I can handle anything that goes wrong in my life. I stopped caring about my career,” he said. “Then slowly I stopped caring about my money.

Will Smith told David Letterman that he 'hated' being called a 'soft' rapper during his tenure with DJ Jazzy Jeff.

“I can handle any person I lose, I can handle anything that goes wrong in my life, I can handle anything in my marriage. “When I came out of it, I realized that anything that happens in my life, I can handle it,” he said. I hated that, being called soft.” Part of the reason for that reputation was what Smith said was a conscious choice to avoid cursing in his music, a result of some sage advice from his gran when he was 12-years-old. “That was the reason I never cursed in any of my records.” But in a sit-down with David Letterman for the new season of his Netflix series, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, Smith admitted that he always hated the squishy reputation he had on the mic. Expert at playing buff, butt-kicking heroes (and antiheroes), Smith made the tricky transition from sitcom staple to major movie star after first making his mark as part of the pop rap duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince in the mid-1980s.

Will Smith, center, and Jada Pinkett Smith, second from right, at the 94th Academy Awards in Hollywood. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times).

You have to learn to live with the reality that any moment, anything can be gone in one second.” I can handle anything that goes wrong in my life. “You can’t protect your family,” Smith told Letterman. “That’s not real. And he hasn’t apologized for the joke he made about Jada Pinkett Smith that provoked her husband. I can handle anything in my marriage. “I stopped caring about my house. I stopped caring about my career. I can handle anything that this life has to offer.” (While presenting the award for documentary feature, Rock made a quip about Pinkett Smith’s hair. The fallout from Smith’s Oscars outburst was harsh and swift. What did Chris Rock do backstage? “When I came out of [the ayahuasca trip], I realized anything that happens in my life, I can handle it,” Smith told Letterman.

In an interview with David Letterman for his Netflix series My Next Guest Needs No Introduction which was taped before the Academy Awards, the King Richard ...

I can handle anything that this life has to offer me.” “And I’m in there and I’m wanting to vomit and all of that, and I hear a voice saying: ‘This is what the (expletive) it is. “This is my fear in real life,” he admitted.

In an interview recorded prior to the Oscars, actor Will Smith told David Letterman about an ayahuasca trip where he saw his whole life "destroyed."

"When I came out of it, I realized that anything that happens in my life, I can handle it," he said. This is what the fuck life is." The backlash against his behavior has also resulted in several of his projects being canned.