
Will Smith came back home to Philadelphia and he wasn't alone. RELATED: Will Smith kicked off book tour at Met Philly with Queen Latifah "I would say that I've almost completely purged and purified that negative perception of myself. And for a 9-year-old, it's hard to break that programming, but I've done a lot of work," he said. "I always had this sense of being a coward because I watched my father beat up my mother and I didn't do anything. Smith tried to bury those painful memories, and he never discussed them with his mother until he decided to write his book. Smith said that his father, who died in 2016, was abusive toward his mother, and that dynamic affected him for years.

In his new memoir, "Will," the actor, 53, delves into the most personal details of his life, from his relationship with Pinkett Smith to his at times "traumatic" childhood in West Philadelphia. "We just know that the road look like everybody think it's supposed to look." We are pursuing the kind of love that everybody dreams about," Smith said.


Previously, Smith said that he and his wife have not always been monogamous over the course of their 23-year marriage.
