His book. He mentions few times he has screaming outbursts
Will Smith always maintains that "Happy go guy" image. But I'm reading his book and it was already few times he mentioned that he has violent screaming outbursts. The one's he feels sorry about. And some not. That may explain his Oscar meltdown.
Don't remember all. But I think there were these:
- Before his Fresh Prince show, when he was doing music with Jazzy Jeff he had a girlfriend. And one day she dressed herself to go out. And he was with his boys at home. And asked where she is going. And she said: "Out". And he told her to go back inside and not go anywhere. But she ignored him and went. So he felt he had to save face in front of his boys. And when she came back he threw all her things out or even burned them. Don't remember whole details. And screamed at her, I think. And said he feels sorry doing that to her. She did not deserve it.
- One time his GF (maybe same) confessed she cheated on him while he was on tour. Again when he was pre-fame young. And he felt like he had to react somehow. So he trashed room.
- While filming Ali there was some conflict between crew of South African filmmakers and locals of Mozambique. And since South Africans were mostly white and Mozambique guy was black - whiny American black Hollywood people decided to turn this into a "race thing" and started attacking white filmmaker guy. Because they always do. At which point director told Will and his entourage boys to calm down. But he refused and started screaming and throwing tantrums. "Defending blacks". In his woke mind. Which prompted for 20% of crew to walk out of set.
- While Fresh Prince was filming he was screaming outburt at some producer or that type guy in his office. For petty none reasons. Don't even remember what. It was probably even missunderstanding from Will's side.
Maybe there were more but I can't remember now. And these are the ones he mentioned himself. There had to be others. So his image is fake. And that's why everyone were shocked by that outburst. But it looks like he had those in his life often.