The slap heard and seen around the world is still ringing in the ears and mouths of shocked onlookers a day later.
Sunday night (March 27), shortly ahead of accepting his first Academy Award ever, legendary actor Will Smith smacked Chris Rock for delivering a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith, and her battle with alopecia. Though he later apologized for the incident, the damage had been done as social media ignited with debates about the appropriateness of the occurrence given the time and venue.
Among those leading the conversation are Smith and Rock’s fellow celebrities. Look inside to see what the likes of Nicki Minaj, Lil Kim, Cher, Tiffany Haddish, Lil Nas X, 50 Cent, and others had to say.
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Janet Hubert (the original “Aunt Viv”)
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Tiffany Haddish
Tiffany Haddish on Will Smith slapping Chris Rock during the #Oscars: “When I saw a Black man stand up for his wife. That meant so much to me. And maybe the world might not like how it went down, but for me, it made me believe there are still men that love their women.” pic.twitter.com/MA3XdT440u
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Man Will can take a long walk off a short cliff!!! He was wrong. DEAD wrong. Plain and simple. I keep saying in other posts…and we all thought Janet was the “crazy one”….Unhuh…from now on I’m given Will the 😒 from now on…#dontcrynow. Why is everyone checking on Will? He was the aggressor…someone please check on Chris Rock
Totally agree!
Obviously they all missed the part where he was laughing his ass off at the joke before his phony “defense” of his wife. Hypocrisy is the new reality.
He was laughing because he knew the camera was on him, then he looked at Jada who wasn’t having it. Stupid.
He was literally giggling from the previous joke but go off smh the joke Chris was reflecting to Jade took a moment to register.
” Where was this energy to Aug..” stfu. Ya don’t know how that s*** penned out in private between both those men. It was Aug loose lips that told the world smh leaving Will and Jada no choice but to address the elephant in the room from that point on. My heart goes for Will, he has been the b*** of jokes for the past 2-3 years now and he is human. It was a f****** slap within seconds, nothing serious where’s we still got brothers gunned down by police officers, women and kids still missing and s** trafficked, and an inevitably World War 3 on the rise among more things that need to be addressed and acknowledge before it too late including the planet’s global warming.
Girl YAAAAAAAAAAS!!!!!!! 💯🤳🏽💋
Why is it all the black people supporting this s***? That’s why there’s so much violence cause it ALWAYS just goes to that. Can you just be CIVIL and not be physical? Jesus Christ
Oh, please like any other ethnicity is better behave… Come out that bubble of yours and look out into the real world especially what’s happening overseas, an inevitable World War 3 on the verge on happening and I don’t see black people behind that mess at all.
she and all others should stop trying to look like european women with hair styles, sooner or later those chemicals are going to make u lose your hair,be proud of your hair and skin color, the manufactors make millions off of your shame of your self.
I think Chris Rock deserved every bit of that slap. PUBLICLY!!!!!!! You don’t make fun of people who have a any kind of disease. I think Will Smith had every right to defend his wife. More men should stand up and defend their wives like that.
I also think that the academy and other actors should still work with Will Smith. Thank you very much Will for defending Jada in such a public forum. Shame on you Chris for putting Jada in that public position, you knew she has alopecia.
Here is what is really gote SMH. His wife has boycotted the the awards, she’s a bad mom, her kids are f’in messed up. She thought it was ok about 5 year’s ago or however long ago for her then 12 year old daughter to get her own house because she doesn’t believe in telling them what to do or how to live. Umm, she’s her mom, it’s called parenting.
But the point I want to make is she boycotted the awards in ’14 or ’16 I don’t watch them, but it was because of how minorities, specifically black actors where treated, ignored, and on and on. Her and probably 90% of black actor’s were doing some type of protesting.
Sure as s***, the night 2 black men are up for best actor, Chris Rock is the MC, etc. etc. Will Smith after laughing at Rocks GI Jane joke not still from the joke before, then she whispered something in his ear. Next thing you know Smith does his idiotic “b**** slap”. Then sit down and make even worse not just for Chris Rock but the entire audience who also laughed their asses of at Rock’s joke.
Chris Rock is probably the best stand up in the world right now and has been for 20 year’s. Why do you think he was hosting the show. They didn’t ask him to host the show to talk all Hollywood and serious. Will Smith
WAS one of my top 3 actor’s and has been for year’s. After I saw the childish behavior on stage from him and even worse 2 year old attion seeking “I’m the man” barking order’s to Chris Rock trying to embarrass him more I lost all and I mean all respect for Smith. Rock probably didn’t know about her hair issue. If he did, then she had to be telling everyone to het a little more sympathy.
Funny how women and men can make non-stop joke’s about balding men. Which is all it is for Smiths wife as well as 100’s of thousands of other woman.F her and F him. They just ruined what all those black actors who have been trying to get equally by The Fresh Idiot going all getto on Rock then crying and hope he will be accepted in Hollywood. He a great actor and I am pretty sure that was not hard to adlib for him while not apologizing to Chris Rock then. (Yes, I heard he did but I don’t believe he is sorry) He’s trying to save his ass before all of Hollywood turns their back on him. That can’t be soon enough.
He’s a Comedian Period. That’s what they do, they make jokes about people. I honestly don’t believe he knew about her condition. I didn’t know about her condition. I just thought she got a cute style.
Not a fan of Will Smiths anymore, Will has been outta the hood to long, everytime he saw me..here on out, he would have to fight me…Kudos to Chris Rock for not doing that moron move at his work!