{"id":12510,"date":"2023-04-08T20:01:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T20:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/08\/tatyana-ali-defends-will-smith-hes-a-beautiful-person\/"},"modified":"2023-04-08T20:01:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T20:01:43","slug":"tatyana-ali-defends-will-smith-hes-a-beautiful-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/08\/tatyana-ali-defends-will-smith-hes-a-beautiful-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Tatyana Ali defends Will Smith: &apos;He&apos;s a beautiful person!&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2023-04-08\" datetime=\"1680984103\" pubdate=\"\">8 April 2023<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p>Tatyana Ali has defended <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/will-smith\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,will-smith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Will Smith<\/a> as a \u201cbeautiful person\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Tatyana Ali has defended Will Smith as a \u2018beautiful person\u2018<\/p>\n<p>The former \u2018Fresh Prince of Bel-Air\u2019 actress, 44, who played Will\u2019s cousin Ashley Banks on the NBC sitcom from 1990 to 1996, didn\u2019t want to directly address how Will, 54, assaulted comic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/chris-rock\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,chris-rock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Rock<\/a>, 58, at last year\u2019s Oscars.<\/p>\n<p>But she told Page Six at Variety\u2019s Power of Women luncheon in New York: \u201cHe\u2019s a beautiful person who has done so much good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to talk about it (the Oscars slap) because he is somebody who is very close to me and it\u2019s hurtful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also told how her parents kept he on the straight and narrow as a child star.<\/p>\n<p>\nAli added: \u201cMy family doesn\u2019t care about whether I\u2019m in entertainment or a teacher.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThey care about me. I have friends who didn\u2019t fare very well and I think it has to do with when you\u2019re a kid.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cYes, you\u2019re working, but you\u2019re still a kid and you need someone to protect you and say no. My parents weren\u2019t playing that at all. I had chores like my sisters. I had to go to college.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nShe defended Will after Chris\u2019 actor and comedian brother Tony Rock claimed the actor did not reach out to his older sibling to apologise for assaulting him at the 2022 Academy Awards.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe insisted his side of the story was true despite Will, 54, saying in a video in July he had \u201creached out\u201d to Chris, but the stand-up had not been \u201cready to talk\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\nTony \u2013 who Will cast in his 2005 superhero comedy \u2018Hitch\u2019 \u2013 told BigBoyTV about Will\u2019s claim: \u201cThat wasn\u2019t true, that wasn\u2019t true. I think like, two nights later, he said, \u2018I reached out to Chris, and he didn\u2019t want to talk.\u2019 That wasn&#8217;t true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nThe day after he smacked Chris on the face at the Oscars for joking about his 51-year-old wife Jada\u2019s buzzcut, Will said on Instagram: \u201cI would like to apologise to you Chris, I was out of line and I was wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd in July 2022 the actor posted a grovelling video in which he told Chris: \u201cI apologise to you. My behaviour was unacceptable and I\u2019m here whenever you\u2019re ready to talk.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/tatyana-ali-defends-will-smith-beautiful-person-1376504.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 April 2023 Tatyana Ali has defended Will Smith as a \u201cbeautiful person\u201d. Tatyana Ali has defended Will Smith as a \u2018beautiful person\u2018 The former \u2018Fresh Prince of Bel-Air\u2019 actress, 44, who played Will\u2019s cousin Ashley Banks on the NBC sitcom from 1990 to 1996, didn\u2019t want to directly address how Will, 54, assaulted comic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1431,1004,1432,1430,1433,1005],"class_list":{"0":"post-12510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-ashley-banks","9":"tag-chris-rock","10":"tag-jada-pinkett-smith","11":"tag-tatyana-ali","12":"tag-tony-rock","13":"tag-will-smith"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}