How Will Smith lost 20 pounds — and the weight of childhood trauma
nypost.comBest Shape of My Life,” out Monday. As Smith, 53, set out to shed the more than 20 excess pounds he’d packed on by snacking throughout the pandemic, he also began shedding the weight of the childhood trauma and domestic violence he endured.“At eight-years-old Will began developing this concept of himself as a coward because he idly witnessed his father abuse his mother,” filmmaker Dexton Deboree told The Post. “He was the oldest of his siblings, but found himself so paralyzed by the sight of his dad [the late Willard Carroll Smith Sr.] hitting his mom [Caroline Bright, 78] that he couldn’t jump in to save her,” Deboree, 47, added of Smith — who recently revealed that he contemplated killing his father in order to “avenge” his mother shortly.
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