The fallout coincided with turmoil in his private life.
Jada Pinkett Smith, 53, admitted in 2020 to an “entanglement” with singer August Alsina and revealed in her 2023 memoir Worthy she and Smith had been separated for years.
The couple, who by no means divorced, now stay aside.
Will himself has tried to border the Oscars scandal as a possibility for renewal.
In an interview selling his album, he stated: “I can have a look at (the incident) as an absolute mess, horrible, horrible – or I can have a look at it as a extremely nice kintsugi alternative, to rebuild one thing lovely and highly effective.
I hate admitting that I am solely human – my ego desires to be Superman. The phrase I used to be serious about after I thought concerning the final couple of years of my life was ‘brutaful’ – brutal and delightful.”
His return to the stage has carried out little to quiet criticism. Performing for six,000 folks in Scarborough earlier than transferring on to Wolverhampton’s Civic Corridor this weekend, Will has confronted ridicule for leaning on digital trickery to current a picture of adoring crowds.