Summary: <p><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/will-smith">Will Smith</a> has posted an apology video in which he discusses slapping <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/chris-rock">Chris Rock</a> at the Academy Awards in March.</p> <p>In a YouTube video, Smith addressed the comedian, whom Smith says has declined to speak with him directly. “So I will say to you, Chris, I apologise to you,” the actor said.</p> <p>He also apologised to Rock’s mother and brother: “My behaviour was unacceptable and I’m here whenever you’re ready to talk. I want to apologise to Chris’s mother. I saw an interview that Chris’s mother did, and that was one of the things about that moment I just didn’t realise – and I wasn’t thinking – but how many people got hurt in that moment.”</p> --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://anchor.fm/bj-murphy9/support" rel="payment">https://anchor.fm/bj-murphy9/support</a>
