Jada Pinkett Smith’ Revelation: Chris Rock’s Apology After Will Smith Slap, and Their Ongoing Silence

Jada Pinkett Smith told People magazine that the actress had not talked to Chris Rock since the evening of the 2022 Oscars when Will Smith punched the actor and comedian across his face following he made a joke regarding Jada’s bald head onstage. Because of Jada’s alopecia, Rock’s joke caused controversy. ” I have not talked with Chris…Is there anything I would like to tell him? “Here’s my wish: I simply pray that all of the confusion surrounding this will be sorted up and there can be harmony,” Jada stated to the magazine. While Chris Rock and Jada haven’t communicated since that evening of the 2022 Oscars, Jada actually disclosed for the very first time that Rock exited the stage & approached her right after the slap. ” Chris stepped down from the stage and apologized to me,” said the actress.

Jada Pinkett Smith tells @People Chris Rock asked her out one summer amid divorce rumors with Will Smith:

“He called me and basically he was like, ‘I'd love to take you out.’ And I was like, ‘What do you mean?’ He was like, ‘Well, aren't you and Will getting a divorce?’ I was… pic.twitter.com/F9vbo9qow9

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“‘I wasn’t attempting to cause you any harm,’ he said. ‘I cannot talk about this right now, Chris,’ I said. This is simply some old nonsense.’ I believed that this was regarding the Oscars in 2016 and… their work from before I got into the picture back in the late ’80s. I will leave that to Will & Chris for them to talk about, however, they’ve got their stuff.” For Jada, the 2016 Oscars proved to be a foreshadowing of the 2022 Oscars slap. Jada loudly criticised the ceremony for the Academy Awards in 2016 during the #OscarsSoWhite controversies, when the awards neglected to include a single person of colour in any of the four acting genres. Rock hosted that year (as well as additionally included a Jada protesting joke in his speech), and Jada stated he was insulted by her remarks about the ceremony.

Jada Pinkett Smith tells @People that she thought Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars was a skit:

“I was like, ‘There’s no way that Will hit him.’ It wasn’t until Will started to walk back to his chair that I even realized it wasn’t a skit.” pic.twitter.com/wkPjgRgBMB

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Jada Pinkett Smith Claims Chris Rock Reached Out To Her Following Will Smith’s Slap 

In the run-up to the debut of her memoir, Worthy, actress Jada Pinkett Smith made many disclosures. She revealed in an interview that she and her spouse Will Smith have been apart since 2016, and the sole explanation for why they haven’t divorced is due to a promise that they swore to each other. Jada also discussed the notorious altercation at the 2022 Oscars, where Will Smith came up on stage as well as struck comedian Chris Rock, who had made a joke about her. She stated that the problem was between the two guys, although she did reveal that she had a past with Chris Rock. She admitted that Chris approached her on one of the many instances that she and Will were supposed to have broken up. ” Every summer, everybody reported that Will and I were divorcing. And this summer, Chris, assumed that we were getting divorced. So he contacted and said, basically, ‘I’d want to take you out.’ ‘What does that mean?’ I wondered. ‘Well, aren’t you and Will having a divorce?’ he said. ‘No,’ I said.

Those are simply rumors, Chris.’ He was shocked. And he apologised profusely, and that was the end of it,” she explained. She claims she has not talked to the comedian following the Oscars situation, but she claims he approached her soon after the slap & apologised for offending her feelings. “His reply was, ‘I didn’t mean to hurt you.'” ‘I can’t engage in this right now, Chris,’ I said. “This is a bunch of old s—,” she remarked, noting that she assumed he was referring to their previous feud in the run-up to the 2016 Oscars, which Jada snubbed in favour of the #OscarsSoWhite movement. Even back then, Chris Rock, who presented the event, cracked a joke about Jada. She claimed that she originally mistook the slap for a’skit’ and only understood it was real when Will began heading back towards her from the stage. Will Smith apologised for his conduct and was barred from the Academy for ten years. He received an Oscar for his role in King Richard moments following the slap, and he was nominated for another last year for his work in Emancipation.

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