“When he hit Chris, he hit all of us. He really hit me. Because when he hurt my son, he hurt me too. No one heard his speech because everyone was sitting around thinking about what had just happened.'” , he continued, sharing that his son was “happy” to present the award to Questlove during the ceremony.
In his first public appearance days after the Oscars, Chris Rock addressed the situation in one of her performances, saying, “I’m still processing what happened.” The comedian also revealed to the public that he would probably talk about what happened at some point in a more serious setting.
Since then, Will Smith He resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which organizes the Oscars, an institution that also banned the actor from attending its events for the next ten years.