Will Smith posts special birthday tribute to son Trey: ‘True definition of love’

Will Smith posts a special birthday tribute to his son Trey: 'True definition of love'.Source: Will Smith, Instagram

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00:00 Willard Carroll Smith III was born on November 11, 1992.

00:04 From birth, we called him Trey

00:06 'cause he was the third Willard Smith.

00:08 Cherie was asleep, and we had a tiny bassinet

00:11 for Trey in an adjacent bedroom.

00:14 I couldn't stop looking at him.

00:15 I was terrified.

00:18 I had wanted this my whole life,

00:22 and here I was with my son, my wife, my family, my turn.

00:28 My body was quaking, overwhelmed with the immensity

00:32 of the responsibility of this tiny human life.

00:35 I fell to my knees, sobbing uncontrollably,

00:39 praying to God, "Please help me do it right.

00:43 "Please help me be a good daddy."

00:45 My mind swerved and careened

00:48 like a drone through my childhood.

00:51 I had talked so much (beep) about daddy-o,

00:54 now here I was.

00:57 Could I put food on the table

00:59 and keep the lights on without fail?

01:01 Would I be strong enough to fend off someone

01:05 who came to kill him?

01:06 It's 3 a.m., I'm on my knees.

01:11 I'm just a little boy.

01:13 I never wanted my daddy so bad in my life,

01:17 and then something clicked deep in my heart.

01:23 It clicked deep in a place

01:25 where nothing had ever clicked before.

01:27 A decision, an ironclad conviction.

01:32 I wiped my tears, I stood up, I gently touched Trey's head,

01:37 and I knew there were only two possibilities.

01:42 I was gonna be the best father this planet had ever seen,

01:47 or two, I was gonna be dead.