Noah asked Smith “what has the journey been like that day?” The actor replied “There’s many nuances and complexities to it, you know. But at the end of the day, I lost it. And I guess what I would say is at the end of the day, you never know what somebody’s going through.” Smith continued, tearing up at one moment, “I was going through something that night. Not that it justifies my behavior. If you’re asking me what did I learn…I learned we just gotta be nice to each other, man. It’s hard. It’s like I took my pain and made it harder for other people.”
Noah then referred to Smith’s memoir when asking his follow-up question. “You talk in your book about being afraid of conflict, you were afraid to fight. For me in that moment, it’s like you stood up for the wrong thing at the wrong time in a way.” Smith responded, “It was a lot of things. It was the little boy that watched his father beat up his mother, you know? All of that just bubbled up in that moment. That is not who I want to be.”
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