“I was just like, ‘Whoa, this is not the life that I want,'” she said. Smith said that Willow altered his approach to parenting at this point, noting that his daughter “saved” him.
“I was like, ‘I am parenting the s*** out of these kids,'” the Bright actor stated in an interview with “Will Smith: An Evening of Stories with Friends” (via People). “I thought I was doing incredibly well.”
He went on to say, “It was terrifying,” recalling the moment he saw Willow had shaved her head. Willow grabbed me back as I walked out onto the street in front of a bus, as if I had been texting while staring at my phone.
As odd as it may seem, I felt emotions for the first time. Because of my upbringing, because of my early years …
I didn’t give a damn about how other people felt because I didn’t care about how I felt. In my childhood household, my sentiments were unimportant. You followed the instructions.
