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Inside Will Smith's comeback, after the weirdest three years of his career:

• https://pagesix.com, By Jeanette Settembre

Will Smith is coming back from canceled – and speaking his truth.

The 56-year-old Oscar winning actor released his first full length album in two decades, "Based on a True Story," Friday, addressing the infamous Oscars slap of Chris Rock in 2022 that got him banned from the Academy Awards, and the media frenzy that followed.

"This was the very, very first time that he wasn't the good guy, that the internet treated him like the villain," Omarr Rambert, executive producer of Smith's album, told The Post of the Slapgate aftermath.

"[Now] he just wants to be vulnerable and honest and show other sides of himself." 

Before recording, he sought advice from the biggest names in hip hop, calling up Jay-Z, who told him "Don't fake your story. You gotta say what's true for you," thus inspiring the album's title, while Kendrick Lamar told him straight — "Man, just say that s—t you always been f—king scared to say," Smith said on SiriusXM's Sway in the Morning recently.

Smith is also embarking on a redemption tour, with summer dates across Morocco, Europe and the United Kingdom this summer. 

Rumors have also been sparked he is in talks with Netflix to be the subject of its next comedy roast, according to Puck News. A rep declined to comment on that matter.

Cutting straight to the chase, the first song of Smith's new album, "Int. Barbershop – Day" opens with the line: "Will Smith is canceled."

Another verse raps, "Him and Jada both crazy, girl, what you talkin' about? / You better keep his wife's name out of your mouth," referring to how Smith told Rock, "Keep my wife's name out of your f—ing mouth," after shockingly rushing the stage to slap him at the Oscars.

Will later apologized in a statement, saying he "reacted emotionally" as a result of the joke Rock made about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith's hair loss condition, alopecia.

A Hollywood producer who worked with Will and Jada told The Post he always likes to have someone around him: "[Will] travels with a therapist. Someone on staff. He never leaves without someone with him. This was before the slap. That's their full-time job – is to be his therapist. I was told he goes places, and there's someone that comes with him. It's a woman."


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