American comedian Kevin Hart is in a good place right not and he attributes this to learning from the challenges and mistakes of his past.
The actor said in an interview with Insider, “All obstacles, all roadblocks, all speed bumps, all dumb, stupid moves that I’ve made have somehow shaped and molded me into the person that I am now and I wouldn’t change it.”
Hart has had his share of scandals and social media drags through the years. He faced criticism after his homophobic tweets resurfaced in 2018. The scandal led to the father of four stepping down as the host of the 2019 Oscars shortly after he scored the gig.
Then just under a year later, Hart suffered a major back injury; after he was the passenger in a car that rolled into a ditch in the hills of Malibu in California. And in the same year, the Netflix docuseries on his life, Don’t F*ck This Up revealed how his wife Eniko Parrish found out he was cheating on her while she was around seven months pregnant back in 2017. This incident was also the centre of an alleged extortion scam against Hart.
But Hart believes that all these setbacks have improved him as a person.
“I can say that the things that have happened to me have somehow, someway, managed to make me better,” Hart said. With Hart’s belief about learning from mistakes, he recently spoke out about cancel culture and why he ignores it.
“If somebody has done something truly damaging then, absolutely, a consequence should be attached,” Hart said in a recent profile for The Sunday Times.
“When did we get to a point where life was supposed to be perfect? Where people were supposed to operate perfectly all the time?” He continued. “I don’t understand. I don’t expect perfection from my kids or my wife, friends, employees. Because, last I checked, the only way you grow up is from f*cking up. “
The 41-year-old said, ‘I don’t know a kid who hasn’t f*cked up or done some dumb shit.”