It’s a blueprint, and I followed it my whole career.
It’s very simple, it’s three things," Murphy began.
Murphy ended his speech and he left the stage to a thunderous round of applause.
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“But, I love both of them,” he told reporters.
Murphy’s speech, however, didn’t mark the first time Smith was named on the NBC telecast.
“Wow, dude, it was aG.I.
Eddie Murphy accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 2023 Golden Globes.Rich Polk/NBC via Getty Images
The fallout from the slap was intense, with Smithbeing banned from attending Academy-sanctioned eventsfor the next 10 years.
“That was a horrific night, as it’s possible for you to imagine.
There are many nuances and complexities to it.
“I was going through something that night.
Not that that justifies my behavior at all.
You’re asking, what did I learn?
It’s that we’ve just gotta be nice to each other, man.
I understood the idea of when they say hurt people hurt people.”
