Will Smith Might Have Predicted His Own Career Downfall After Doing Ayahuasca 14 Times
What you are looking at above is Will Smith re-enacting the moment where an innocent sip of ayahuasca tea decided to mess with his perception of the truth and scare the ever-loving shit out of him with a vision of everything he holds dear vanishing in an instant It’s entirely too bold to ever call a sip of ayahuasca “innocent,” because that scary tea can have people seeing a headless version of their 2nd grade teacher with tentacles instead of human arms. But apparently ayahuasca isn’t scary enough for Will Smith to only have done it once. The only problem is, one of those trips has now come back to haunt his present-day reality in a big way.
A fourth season of David Letterman’s Netflix interview series, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, recently dropped and Will makes an apperance in one episode. As Uproxx notes, the interview was filmed before Will won the Best Actor Oscar at this year’s Academy Awards, which also happened to be the night Will Smith received a 10-year ban from the Academy Awards for smacking Chris Rock across the face during the presentation of Best Documentary Feature.
Will says he’s never done any kind of drugs, has never smoked weed, or abused alcohol in any way, but that he was drawn to the idea of the South American psychoactive brew after some spiritual-ish friends bragged about its mind-opening properties. Will says he loved its effects after the first time he tried it, and so he tried it 14 more times. During one of those times, Will got what would later sound like psychedelic foreshadowing. via Uproxx:
“I drank, and it usually takes about 45 minutes to kick in,” Smith told Letterman. “And I’m sitting there and you always feel like, ‘Maybe it won’t kick in this time.’ So I’m drinking and sitting there and then all of a sudden it’s like I start seeing all of my money flying away, and my house is flying away and my career is going away.”
At one point during his vision, he heard his daughter Willow calling out for help. “Then slowly, I stopped caring about my money, I just wanted to get to Willow,” he said. “I stopped caring about my house, I stopped caring about my career.”
Here’s Will explaining his vision, which he claims was narrated by a voice telling him: “This is what the fuck life is.”
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Will says that he took on a new optimistic perspective after that trip, and that it made him realize that he could handle anything that life throws at him, whether it be losing someone close to him or losing his whole career (although technically Will still has a career, he just can’t attend the Oscars for a decade). At the very least, it sounds like he’s currently handling what life has thrown at him with the help of a therapist.
But the fact that Will didn’t know what was coming makes his ayahuasca trip confession extremely spooky. What psychics could boast such accuracy? You know, this whole situation might present a career opportunity for Will. And if not Will, then that voice in Will’s subconscious. That voice should seriously consider registering for a 1-900 number and purchasing some late night ad space. “Go ahead and ayahu-ask me anything about your future, from your love life to your career! Call me now!”
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