So while Will Smith is touted as one of the nicest dudes in Hollywood, former Fresh Prince co-star Janet Hubert (Aunt Viv) is ready to unleash a tell-all book that reveals a darker side to the actor.
In Perfection Is Not a Sitcom Mom, Hubert claims that Smith would “sabotage” any actor who “outshone him” and attempts to set the record straight on her sudden departure from Bel Air, when she was fired and replaced with Daphne Maxwell Reed.
On her website, she explains that “I chronicle the sudden change of [Vivian’s] character like a CSI episode, detailing the plot, the murder, the funeral and the trial, with actual deposition material taken by a team of nine attorneys,” which sounds a little nutty to us.
Smith addressed the controversy back in 1993, saying, “I can say straight up that Janet wanted the show to be ‘The Aunt Viv of Bel-Air’ show. She’s mad now, but she’s been mad all along. She said once, ‘I’ve been in the business for 10 years and this snotty-nosed punk comes along and gets a show.’ No matter what, to her I’m just the Antichrist.”
Damn!
That’s quite a pervasive grudge!
LOVE it!
[Image via WENN.]
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