Video: "My behavior was unacceptable." Will Smith addresses Oscars slap, apologizes to Chris Rock

Leave your wife is the first step. She’s despicable

The most despicable thing is that hundreds of people in that theatre gave him a standing ovation just a few minutes after it happened. And before the media and people “told” them how they were supposed to react. Just a bunch of hypocrites.

Man destroyed his life's work over a joke everyone would have forgotten in just a few seconds..

There is a difference between someone who is truly sorry and someone who is just trying to do damage control.

Literally me when my mom forces me to apologize to my siblings

Interviewer didn't want to get slapped so they used a teleprompter.

"Forgive me so my career stays perfect 😭"

Saying "I want to apologize" and saying "I'm sorry " are two different things

He should’ve started with this line: “Now, this is a story all about how my life got flipped-turned upside down”

The reason he didn't apologise in his acceptance speech is because he was still under the impression that what he did was proper and heroic. The apology now is because it didn't turn out the way he'd hoped and there was a ton of backlash.

i dont think i can have the same respect for will again 💀

This wasn't an apology. This was a hostage video

He lost me when he apologized to his wife 😂

If I were Chris Rock, I'd say to Will: "Keep my name out your fx*king mouth!!!"

Here, Will, lemme help you out: I won't ask Chris' forgiveness, because I don't deserve it. Maybe one day when I've forgiven myself I will ask it. I just want to say that I'm sorry. Not as an apology, but as me regretting my actions. There does come a time in a man's life when he must protect the ones he loves, but not from a comedian doing his trade. For those saying I've humiliated Chris I want to say: no, he took it like a champ and came up on top. In that situation he was the hero and I was the villain. I did not humiliate him, but I did manage to humiliate myself. I worked so hard, put so much effort into my acting for years and I feel like it's all been undone by 20 seconds of rage. All that intellect I had to put into my acting methods and I was overcome by such a base instinct as to hurt another human being by following a misguided sense of righteousness. This is not the example I want to show my kids. For all the people out there on my side over this situation, I like to think that in the past I have shown examples of being a role model, but this was not one of them. Follow me for whatever else, but not for this. Not for my lowest point. Thank you for listening. That ought to have done it, Will. But to say stuff like this you have to genuinely be sorry.

Don't apologize to the public for what you did! Apologize to Chris for slapping him, to all the winners and presenters who got the spotlight taken away from them, to the academy for not leaving the room and making the most awkward scene in tv history, and to all of us for dragging us yet again into your personal issues.

This was the most self-centered and self-serving apology ever.

Man he still covering for her, like he didn’t laugh at the joke.

His apology feels so tense with this almost underlying anger. He briefly apologized to Chris but then went on to apologize more in sincerity to others. But Chris is the one he punched. Will always seemed so wholesome and fun and smart to me. But now I see him as this scary person with a LOT of unsolved emotional issues. I’m sure he regrets what he did. But I’m guessing it’s mostly because it messed with his career. Hope you get real help, Will. This is a time to grow emotionally.

He didn't apologize that night, he accepted his award and didn't care.