{"id":2275994,"date":"2026-02-10T16:58:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2275994"},"modified":"2026-02-10T16:58:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:58:03","slug":"will-smith-still-struggling-to-fix-his-public-image-after-oscars-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/will-smith-still-struggling-to-fix-his-public-image-after-oscars-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Smith still struggling to fix his public image after Oscars\u2019 assault"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Will Smith still struggling to fix his public image after Oscars\u2019 assault<\/p><\/div>\n

Will Smith has long been trying to revamp his public image nearly four years after his infamous Oscars\u2019 slap-gate incident with Chris Rock.<\/p>\n

In a report published by Radar Online<\/i>, a source revealed that the King Richard <\/i>actor is trying to harness his rage by taking therapy sessions for years but Hollywood isn\u2019t forgiving him for his 2022 assault during the Academy Awards.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe anger has been pushed down, not mastered,\u201d said an industry insider while speaking of his anger management therapy.<\/p>\n

The source told the outlet that Will \u201chas done every program, every retreat, but you can feel the tension still there \u2013 it surfaces whenever he talks about what happened\u201d.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, Will\u2019s troubles increased after violinist Brian King Joseph recently filed a sexual\u2011harassment lawsuit against him. However, the Bad Boys <\/i>actor\u2019s attorney called the claims \u201cfalse, baseless, and reckless\u201d.<\/p>\n

Nonethless, this case had made his comeback complicated in the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n

One production source spilled to the same outlet, \u201cWill sees the performance of Bad Boys: Ride or Die<\/i> as validation that he still connects with audiences. In his mind, an I Am Legend<\/i> sequel is the project that can cement that support and re-establish him as a serious box office force.\u201d<\/p>\n

But another tipster mentioned that Michael B. Jordan\u2019s movie commitments \u201chave slowed everything to a crawl\u201d increasing Will\u2019s agitation.<\/p>\n

In the last few years, the source close to the actor pointed out that Will has tried \u201cmeditation, therapy, and anger management work, but sometimes that intensity still leaks out\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s like he can’t quite forgive himself, and also realised that what he’s trying to fix isn’t just his career \u2013 it’s himself, and his lingering anger,\u201d added an insider.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.hungamaexpress.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Will Smith still struggling to fix his public image after Oscars\u2019 assault Will Smith has long been trying to revamp his public image nearly four years after his infamous Oscars\u2019 slap-gate incident with Chris Rock. In a report published by Radar Online, a source revealed that the King Richard actor is trying to harness his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2275995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2275994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Will-Smith-still-struggling-to-fix-his-public-image-after.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2275994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2275996,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275994\/revisions\/2275996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2275995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2275994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2275994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2275994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}