Did Will Smith know that his career was going to be turned upside down?
This is in any case what he seems to have revealed to David Letterman during the new season of the American host's interview show.
In
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction
, recorded before the "slap" that shook Hollywood (and his whole life), the actor admits having had a vision during an ayahuasca-based trip, a hallucinogenic herb consumed as an infusion (considered a narcotic by French legislation and therefore prohibited).
And what the star saw when he started to feel the effects of psychotropic drugs shocked him.
“Once you drink it, you see yourself in a way you've never seen.
And it was the most hellish individual psychological experience of my life.
I drank it, and it usually takes about 45 minutes to kick in.
I sit there and I always say to myself: "Maybe it won't work this time".
So I was sitting around drinking, and all of a sudden I started to see all my money go, my house go, and my career go," he said, as relays it to the NME.
Manage everything
Will Smith goes on to explain why his subconscious led him to this vision.
"It's my fear in real life, and I'm here, I feel like throwing up and all that, and I hear a voice saying to me, 'This is what the fuck is. the fucking life,” he added.
How did he handle this vision?
Pretty good, if the interview is to be believed.
“When I got out of it, I realized that I can handle anything that happens in my life.
I can handle anyone I lose, I can handle anything that goes wrong in my life, I can handle anything that happens in my marriage.
I can face whatever life has to offer,” he assured David Letterman.
If we consider that going to India to "recharge" and meditate is a way of coping with all that life can "offer" to him, then yes, Will Smith managed to manage the ordeal of the slap inflicted on Chris Rock.
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