A notorious doctor – serving life for running an illegal, house-of-horrors abortion clinic – claimed he delivered actor Will Smith, joking that “Men in Black” would have never been made “if I had dropped you on your head.”
The Daily Mail reported Tuesday that it had obtained a November, 2016 letter from Dr. Kermit Gosnell to Smith at the actor’s production company in California, making the unverified bombshell claim.
Smith was born on Sept. 25, 1968 in Philadelphia, long before Gosnell set up his illicit clinic that performed illegal and grotesque abortions after 24 weeks – Pennsylvania’s limit for legally ending a pregnancy, according to The Mail.
Smith was supposed to be delivered by family doctor Leopold Lowenberg but he got caught in traffic when Caroline Smith went into labor, allowing resident Gosnell to pinch hit in the delivery room of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, the disgraced doctor claimed.
“I’m fond of asserting that there could never be a Men in Black if I had dropped you on your head,” wrote Gosnell, who is 76 and locked up for life inside a state pen in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.
The doctor said he wanted to reach out to the actor, after hearing Smith say in 2015 that he might consider a future run at politics.
“I’ve finally decided that it’s time to reach out to you,” Gonell wrote. “Your tentative plans for a political career, in a recent interview, provided the impetus for this communication.”
Gosnell said his son David is an aspiring Hollywood screenwriter – who had pleaded with him not to reach out to Smith. The doctor said he’d written two previous letters to Smith but never mailed them.
“He graduated from Temple U. with a degree in Dramatic Arts. Presently, the writing of screen-plays is his creative focus as his priority has become the needs of his son,” Gosnell wrote about his son.
“Like father, like son, may be the pattern. At any rate, David never approved of my drafts to request assistance in your mutual profession.”
A rep for Smith could not be immediately reached for comment on Tuesday.
A Thomas Jefferson spokeswoman said she was not able to immediately verify or dispute any of Gosnell’s claims.
The Mail said it obtained Gosnell’s letter through writer Phelim McAleer, co-author of “Gosnell: The Untold Story of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer.”
McAleer said he believes Gosnell’s claims about delivering Smith.
“Everything he told us for the book checks out,” McAleer said. “He has a huge memory for details.”
Gosnell was sentenced to life in prison, without the possibility of parole, in 2013 for the murder of three babies born alive after botched abortions at his filthy, unsanitary clinic.
Gosnell didn’t make any specific requests of Smith in his letter, but railed against America’s criminal justice system.
“My contention is that a politician, relevant for people of color, need be fluent with issues which include: mental health capitation, the public and pharmacology industry’s over-emphasis on `magic bullets’, intuitive judgements, unconscious attitudes, implicit bias, cognitive bias, acceptable deception and planned deceit. Personally, I have confidence in eventual vindication as so many gross errors occurred in my proceedings,” Gosnell wrote.
The doctor also claimed to know Smith’s older sister Pamela and wanted to check in on her – although Gosnell called her “Patricia” in the letter.