Will Smith punched Chris Rock in the middle of the Oscars after he made a joke about his wife.
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Almost a month after the incident with Will Smith Y Chris Rock at the 94th edition of the Oscars, the comedian’s mother, rose rockwas pronounced for the first time.
During an interview with local South Carolina news station WIS-TV, Rose Rock opened up about the moment Smith walked onstage and punched Chris, 57. in response to a joke the comedian made about Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head.
“He responded to his wife giving him a sideways glance and left to make her day because she was speechless when it happened,” Rose told WIS’s Billie Jean Shaw.
Rose shared that she initially thought the incident was planned while watching it from her home during the show, but realized it was real when Smith, 53, started saying “profanity.”
“when he hit Chris, hit us all. really hit me. Because when he hurt my son, it hurt me too. No one heard his speech because everyone was sitting around thinking about what just happened,” she continued, sharing that her son was “happy” to present Questlove with the award during the ceremony.
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In his first public appearance days after the Oscars, Chris addressed the situation in one of his presentations, saying, “I’m still processing what happened“. The comedian also revealed to the public that he’d likely open up about what happened in a more serious way at some point.
Smith has since 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 decade.
Earlier this month, the former ‘Saturday Night Live’ star’s brother Kenny told the Los Angeles Times that Chris was unaware of Pinkett Smith’s alopecia when she made the joke about her starring role in the ‘GI Jane’ sequel, referring to Demi Moore’s shaved head in the film.
“The joke was funny. It wasn’t hilarious, but I know if he had known she had alopecia… he wouldn’t have joked about it. But he didn’t know that,” Kenny warned.
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