3. Will Smith
Before he started to express a worrying amount of Scientologist propaganda in interviews, Will Smithalways seemed to be one of Hollywood’s most balanced stars. Happily married, a great interviewee and endlessly charismatic, there didn’t seem to be any blots in his copybook. All of this changed in 2012, when tales of Smith being held overnight on aggravated assault charges began to emerge.
The incident in question dated back to 1989. Will had been on a night out in his hometown of Philadelphia, celebrating his recent Grammy win as The Fresh Prince when he got into an altercation with producer William Hendricks. Smith allegedly asked his bodyguard to beat the hell out of Hendricks, which he promptly did. The producer was left almost blinded by the assault and the 20-year old rapper was hauled off to jail on charges of recklessly endangering another person and assault.
Will was released the next day and all charges were dropped, but it takes a certain kind of person to ask their personal man-mountain to viciously beat somebody up for you. To be fair to Smith, he certainly seems to have shocked himself into changing his ways, calling the incident “the worst night of my life”.
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