Kevin Hart has had an eventful 2019. After getting into and recovering from a horrific car accident at the start of September, he's also released a Netflix documentary on his life.
Kevin Hart: Don't F*** This Up has not shied away from covering the tough issues in Kevin's career, including the highly publicized affair he had during his wife's pregnancy.
Kevin revealed that he was being extorted with a video of the incident in an emotional Instagram video wherein he apologized to his wife and children.
"I’m not perfect. I’m not going to sit up here and say that I am, or claim to be in any way shape or form," he said.
"I put myself in a bad environment where only bad things can happen, and they did. And in doing that I know that I’m going to hurt the people closest to me, who’ve I talked to and apologized to, that would be my wife and my kids," he said in the video.
"That's Kevin Hart in his dumbest moment. That's not the finest hour of my life. With that being said, you make your bed, you lay in it," Kevin added, and then said about his wife, "We talked."
Kevin's wife had maintained her silence throughout the public backlash of the announcement and had not commented on Kevin's affair until now.
Eniko tearfully explained that she found out through a direct message sent to her on Instagram. "I don't know who it was [that sent the message], but they sent me an edited video of Kevin and, you know, another woman."
"I was about seven or eight months pregnant and I was having breakfast and I opened my phone and immediately I just lost it. I called him, I'm crying," she explained.
Eniko continued, saying, "You publicly humiliated me. Everything is on Instagram; everything is on social media."
"Every single day. I kept questioning him, like, 'If this is what you want to do, I don't want to be a part of that.'"
"I believe in second chances. I'm all about forgiveness, and you only get two times. Three strikes you're out, you're out of here. So, as long as he behaves, we're good."
Kevin eventually lost the position as old homophobic tweets of his surfaced.
In the Netflix series, Kevin addresses this issue, saying, "I missed an opportunity to say simply that I don’t condone any type of violence in any way, shape or form to anyone for being who they are."
"You can't do it by yourself. You don't let them do their jobs by being the defiant. When you're wrong it's going to hurt because you're going to look back and go, '[expletive], I should've listened.'"
