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Will Smith was in a darkish place after he slapped Chris Rock on the Oscars, however he had a champion in his nook — the actor says Floyd Mayweather referred to as him day-after-day for 10-straight days after the incident, simply to verify he was doing okay.
Smith made the revelation throughout a non-public screening of his new “Emancipation” film at The London resort … and with Floyd in attendance, he took a second to reward TBE for being there for him, regardless that they weren’t precisely greatest buds on the time.
“I want to say something also about Floyd,” Smith stated in video obtained by TMZ Sports. “So, we’ve met each other, we’ve seen each other around, but we weren’t like, friends.”
“And the day after the Oscars, for 10 days he called me every day,” Smith added. “And he was like, ‘Ay, you know you the champ, right? You good? You know you the champ, right? I want you to hear my voice say it,'”
“That was every day he called me … and it’s like, that’s my dude forever right there.”
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Smith has not often spoken in regards to the slapping incident — he solely launched an apology video again in July — so to listen to him go into element in regards to the days following the incident is extremely uncommon.
Producer Deon Taylor, Floyd’s companion on his upcoming docuseries, “The GOAT,” additionally spoke on the screening. Jona Rechnitz and James McNair, a part of the manufacturing staff, have been additionally in the home for the viewing.
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