American actor, Will Smith takes bittersweet pill to accept 10-year ban from Oscars!

The renowned American actor, Will Smith, has responded to his 10-year ban brought forward by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science.

This ban means that Smith, will not be allowed to attend any other events held by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences over the next decade.

The King Richard star’s ban comes after he gave Chris Rock hot slap last month during the Oscar awards for the year.

This follows after the comedian made a joke of Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, throwing a shade at her hair cut.

Jada opened up to the media about her disease called, alopecia.

On that night of the Oscar’s, Smith apologized to the Academy and the nominees when he was receiving his award for title of the best actor.

Governors from the Academy, Hollywood’s most prestigious group of some 10,000 filmmakers, which organises the Oscars, convened on Friday morning to discuss actions against Smith.

The meeting of top brass was originally set to discuss suspending or expelling Smith, but he preemptively resigned from the group.

Actors do not need to be members of the Academy to receive nominations, although each year’s Oscar nominees, and winners, are voted for by members of the group.

“The 94th Oscars were meant to be a celebration of the many individuals in our community who did incredible work this past year; however, those moments were overshadowed by the unacceptable and harmful behavior we saw Mr. Smith exhibit on stage,” said the Academy in a shared letter.

Smith’s responded to the ban on NBC News by saying “ I accept and respect the Academy’s decision,”