Tatyana Ali defends Will Smith: ‘He’s a beautiful person!’
Tatyana Ali has defended Will Smith as a “beautiful person”. The former ‘Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ actress, 44, who played Will’s cousin Ashley Banks on the NBC sitcom from 1990 to 1996, didn’t want to directly address how Will, 54, assaulted comic Chris Rock, 58, at last year’s Oscars. But she told Page Six at Variety’s Power of Women luncheon in New York: “He’s a beautiful person who has done so much good. “I don’t want to talk about it (the Oscars slap) because he is somebody who is very close to me and it’s hurtful.” She also told how her parents kept he on the straight and narrow as a chil...