Will Smith Details 'Hellish' Vision Of Losing His Legacy
Will Smith has been out of the public eye since winning his first-ever Academy Award last March. Now banned from the Oscars ceremony and resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, With fans, Hollywood, and talking heads deliberating the significance and fallout of the incident that occurred between the actor and comedian Chris Rock just moments before his big win, an interview filmed sometime before Oscars Night is seemingly casting the infamous moment in a new light. While sitting with David Letterman on his talk show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, Smith revealed that he had a frightening vision of suddenly losing all that he had worked so hard to build. Smith revealed that, while a bit disillusioned with the empty success of making blockbuster hits, he took a 2-year acting break that found him in Peru, experimenting with the mind-expanding psychedelic ayahuasca. According to Insider, one such experience, which he describes as “the individual most hellish psychological experience of my life,” forced him to face his fear of losing his fortune, reputation, and success. “I’m drinking, I’m sitting there, and then, all of a sudden, it’s like I start seeing all of my money flying away and my house is flying away, and my career is gone,” Smith told Letterman.