Updated On: 16 November, 2021 03:50 PM IST | Washington | ANI
The excerpt read, "When I was nine years old, I watched my father punch my mother in the side of the head so hard that she collapsed. I saw her spit blood."

Will Smith. Pic/AFP
Hollywood star Will Smith recently revealed that he has suffered from guilt because he believes as a child he failed to protect his mother when his father beat her to the ground in the family`s Philadelphia home.
According to Page Six, the `Men in Black` actor recounted the domestic abuse in his new book `Will` and called the traumatizing attack a defining moment, as per an excerpt of the book published in a news outlet.