The year 2010 was one of the most important in the life of Will Smith. The actor was fulfilling one of his great dreams, well he had managed to turn his children Jaden and Willow Smith into true stars. The first, who was 12 years old at the time, starred in the remake of karate Kidwhile his little sister achieved a platinum record with the song Whip My Hair. Both had already taken their first steps in the world of fame with Looking for happiness and I’m legend respectively, that’s why Will saw in them some races to remember.
However, the passage of time has only shown that Will Smith was wrong and he himself has confirmed it in a conversation with Kevin Hart. The Oscar-winning actor has shown himself to be most sorry for wanting to turn his children into stars at all costs and has defended that it was all because of the burden that his father had made with him.
“2010 was kind of the biggest year as an artist, as a parent. karate Kid premiered in june Whip My Hair It came out in October. I was building the dream of the family that I had in my head”, Will detailed. “I’m going to do better than my father did,” he thought then. “We’ve already talked about it: my father was an abuser… I told myself that he would never have that kind of energy with my family, and he had a dream, an idea of the family he was building. Between 2010 and 2012 I had achieved all my dreams. I had exceeded my wildest dreams,” she continued.
A manager more than a father
But Will realized that he was not acting like a father to his children, but more like a manager or a representative, and that was affecting his relationship with his family members. “Nobody was happy. No one wanted to be the platoon member. Willow was the first to riot, and that was the first time I realized that success and money don’t equal happiness.”
“Up until that point I really believed that you could be successful in your own way, have a house and a family, and that you could earn your way to happiness,” he continued. “I was directing the people around me in a way that left a trail of scorched earth.”.
