He’s got jokes. Chris Rock‘s Oscars incident with Will Smith continues to be topic of conversation — and even the comedian is not afraid to find the humor in the situation.
25.04.2022 - 21:53 / stylecaster.com
Family relations. Chris Rock’s mom just revealed how she truly felt when her son was slapped at the Oscars by Will Smith. The Rock matriarch, Rosalie, who goes by Rose Rock, told her local news station about what she did when she saw the moment live on TV.
Rose thought that the slap was staged until Will “started using obscenities.” she explained in an interview with local South Carolina news station WIS-TV. “When he slapped Chris, he slapped all of us,” Rock added. “”Because when you hurt my child, you hurt me.” The mother of the Saturday Night Live alum also said that she would usually attend the Academy Awards ceremony with her son, however this year she stayed home.
Smith slapped Rock after the comedian made a joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith’s bald head at the 2022 Academy Awards on March 27. “G.I, Jane 2, can’t wait to see it,” Rock joked. After Rock’s joke, Smith went on stage and slapped him before returning to his seat. “Wow, Will Smith just slapped the s—t out of me,” Rock said. When Will went back to his seat, he screamed for Rock, “Keep my wife’s name out of your f—king mouth.”
During her interview with WIS-TV, Rock’s mother also reacted to Smith’s first Oscar win moments after the slap. “No one even heard his speech,” she said, referring to Smith’s win for Best Actor for his portrayal in King Richard. “No one was able to just be in the moment because everyone was sitting there like, ‘what just happened?'” As for whether she accepted Smith’s apology to Chris, Rose said “I feel really bad that he never apologized. I mean his people wrote up a piece saying I apologize to Chris Rock, but you see something like that is personal, you reach out.”
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Chris Rock’s momma held nothing back as she finally addressed the now-infamous incident at the Oscars last month.
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