to come back the oscars. This Sunday, March 12 is celebrated the 95th hollywood awards who arrive marked by the slap What Will Smith he planted Chris Rock at the 2022 gala.
It happened after the comedian made a joke about the actress’ shaved head Jada Pinkett SmithWill Smith’s Suffering Wife alopecia problem triggered by an autoimmune disease.
Smith didn’t like the comment and took the stage to slap Rock. He let her know the hard way and the gala went on as if nothing had happened. To the point that a few minutes later, Will Smith returned to the stage to receive the award for best actor for the Williams method.
Chris Rock finally talks about how he felt
The event happened a year ago now and around this time Chris Rock barely spoke on the subject. The comedian preferred to remain silent … until now.
This weekend, during the presentation of his show selective outrage In Baltimore, Chris Rock spoke about what happened.
“He who says words hurt has never been punched in the face”said the comedian who knows firsthand what it’s like to get slapped. He knows this because of what happened at the 2022 Oscars and because Marion Suge Knight, the head of the label Death Row Records, also hit on him in the past after a difficult confrontation.
Rock’s comment was right at the beginning of the monologue and he didn’t mention the subject again until the end when, after an hour of monologue, he referenced what happened at the ceremony.
“You know what happened. That bastard slapped me at the Oscars and people were like ‘does that hurt?’ it still hurts”assured Rock, who does not intend to monetize this case: “I am not a victim. You will never see me cry with Oprah or Gayle King. That will never happen. I took that hit like Pacquiao.”
Chris Rock hasn’t ignored the relationship issues that allegedly plagued Will and Jada, who were estranged for a while. “She hurt him more than he hurt me,” said Rock with whom they say Jada has been unfaithful to Will. “And who does he touch? For me, who knows who can beat (…) Will Smith practices selective indignation”.
The comedian defended that “it had nothing to do with it” and assured that he had been a big fan of Will Smith, although now things have changed
“I loved Will Smith. All my life, I loved… He made great movies. and now i see towards freedom just to see how they beat it“He added, later concluding, ‘A lot of people say, ‘Chris, why didn’t you do anything?’ Because I have parents. Do you know what they taught me? Don’t fight in front of white people.”