Will Smith Opens Up About His Emotional Experience During the ‘Terrifying’ Birth of His First Son | People

• Will Smith opened up about the “terrifying” start of his first son Trey throughout An Evening with Will Smith at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles on Thursday, Oct. 3
• “It's crazy, but you're like, I cannot tell you what it was like bringing that child home on that first night and realizing that he was my responsibility,” he stated, turning into tearful.
• Smith added that he wrote his 1997 monitor “Just the Two of Us,” round the time of Trey's start

Will Smith is getting emotional as he displays on the “terrifying” second he turned a mum or dad for the first time. 

During a wide-ranging dialog as half of An Evening with Will Smith at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles on Thursday, Oct. 3, the Oscar-winning actor and rapper, 56, turned tearful as he shared the story of his son Willard Carroll “Trey” Smith III's start in November 1992.

Ahead of performing his 1997 monitor “Just the Two of Us,” Smith informed the viewers that he had written the track throughout “probably one of the most terrifying times of my life.”

“It's when my son… Trey was born,” he defined, including that his eldest little one, 31, — whom he shares along with his first spouse Sheree Zampino —  was really in the viewers at the occasion.

Smith went on to inform the viewers that Trey was born throughout the second season of his hit '90s TV present The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, when the actor was simply 24.

“It's crazy, but you're like, I cannot tell you what it was like bringing that child home on that first night and realizing that he was my responsibility,” he stated, turning into tearful.

“He's cool now, thank God – he's going to be 32 this year,” Smith — who additionally shares son  Jaden, 26, and daughter Willow, 23, with spouse Jada Pinkett Smith, 53, — added.  

He went on to inform the viewers that “parenting was one of the first things, the first real things in my life that really shook me to my core,”

“I remember that first night,” Smith stated, turning into tearful. “I can't even talk about it. Because I had talked so crazy about my father and all the stuff my father didn't do. And then I was like, ‘Oh no, it is my turn now.' And I just fell down on my knees and I made one of the most hardcore promises ever made to a human being. That I was going to do everything I could do to be a good daddy to you.”

Will wiped away his tears with a towel earlier than sharing that he wrote “Just the Two of Us” that night time and performing the monitor for the friends at the Grammy Museum.

Ahead of his rendition of the track, Smith additionally recalled that Trey had arrived when he'd “just bought a picture-in-picture television,” and in contrast the steering he obtained for the TV to turning into a mum or dad for the first time.

“His mother's water broke, Sheree's water broke and I had just opened my TV. I was trying to set my TV up and there was a thousand-page manual for my television. It was a thousand pages. It was that thick and it was multiple languages and I needed a thousand pages of information to get this TV set up.”

“I remember I brought him home and put him in the bassinet,” he stated, including that “Cedas-Sinai sent me home with a baby and not even a pamphlet.”

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Smith has beforehand mentioned the connection between the track and Trey, together with in his thirty first birthday tribute to his son on Instagram in November 2023.

In the clip he posted, which appeared to be video footage filmed of himself creating his audiobook for his 2021 memoir, Will, the actor mentioned the day Trey was born forward of reciting lyrics from “Just the Two of Us.”

After sharing some of the lyrics, which he stated described the “public depiction of Trey's birth and my introduction to fatherhood,” in a voiceover, Smith defined that he had been “overwhelmed with the immensity” of the accountability forward that got here with being a mum or dad, and revealed that he prayed to God on his knees to him be “a good daddy.”

Meanwhile, the Oct. 3 occasion additionally noticed the Oscar-winning actor and rapper carry out new songs, in addition to hits from “Summertime” to “Getting Jiggy Wit It,” “Miami,” and the lyrics to the theme track from The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, whereas his mother Caroline Bright, 87, was additionally in attendance.