I punched my father, but why? Terry Crews

and so i came back home for christmas we call it the christmas from hell and so we were there and we're going out to dinner with some friends and detroit is about 45 minutes from flint and we were driving to detroit with me and my wife to go see our friends and we get a call we're literally 10 minutes into the ride and i get a call from my aunt she's like oh my god you know your father hit your mother what he was drinking this was somehow the holidays brings out the alcohol you know everybody wants to drink on alcohol it's really activating the triggering for alcoholics and i said did my kids see it she said yeah it's scary they saw i couldn't believe it because i told him i said man my kids have never came up in this they've never seen this you know and and i have three daughters at the time not five now but i couldn't believe they were they were just shocked they had never been in that and all i remember is just the the feeling of surreal terror you know what i mean like this big man is beating my mother up what do i do i don't know you know and then they were in there like why is he doing this like they never seen it [Music] and i said damn it man i turned that i did a u-turn i said listen take the kids take them over your house make sure it's just me and victoria in that house understand make sure of it she got the kids out whole thing dude i rolled up in that house i said hey man didn't i tell you he said oh man shut up man get out my face hit him dead in his mouth and there it was i was like man all those times you beat my mother up all those times i was running around five years old scared couldn't do nothing froze up i'm bigger than your ass now huh how you like that he's screaming at me to stop he's bleeding he's screaming and i'm just wailing on a man and i'm like no how you like that how this is how she felt and you're crying while you're doing this i beat his ass and i'm in tears but listen to me man it's nothing it was empty like nothing i i thought there it is i got revenge revenge is complete and it was hollow it was like an empty box it's like a big box with a giant bow on it what now i was like you just beat up your dad big deal it didn't settle the score didn't change him didn't fix my mother's tooth didn't do anything my mother moved right back in i was like what the hell and so i didn't come back home for 10 years after that i was tired i i remember just being shot like this this was supposed to be so good this was supposed to be so sweet it was nothing it didn't work and you know one thing i discovered even in writing this book was that you can either have success or revenge but you can't have both it's success would have been transcending that moment taking your mother out of there and just leaving him onto his own devices because that's a punishment you let these people do these kind of people that stuff doesn't work because it just makes him more angry you know me makes the whole world blind doesn't it it makes the whole world blind but success is when you leave but revenge is quick i'm gonna have to say this because was a time when i was will smith when you could say something and i would have walked up on that stage and smacked you but when i learned how to be chris rod when i learned how to keep control and actually not let things descend into chaos because that's what that could have been when you look at chris and if he'd imagine if he'd have fought back there would have been no recovering that would have been the end of the academy awards i already was by the way but it would have been complete bedlam

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Length: 4min 55sec (295 seconds)

Published: Sat May 21 2022