The slap heard around the world took place on March 6 during the 94th Annual Academy Awards. As Chris Rock was introducing the Best Documentary category, he made a joke about Will Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett who was in the audience. The former Fresh Prince of Bel-Air star initially looked amused but moments later, sauntered onstage and smacked Rock across the face to the shock of everyone watching the live telecast.
Since then, Smith has apologized to Rock, resigned from The Academy and been banned from the attending the Oscars or any Oscars-related events for 10 years. But people are more anxious to hear what Chris Rock has to say about the incident, though by the sound of it, it will be awhile before he addresses the slap publicly.
On Thursday (May 12), Chris Rock briefly touched on the subject during a show at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
“I’m OK, if anybody was wondering,” he said. “I got most of my hearing back. People expect me to talk about the bullshit, I’m not going to talk about it right now, I’ll get to it eventually, on Netflix.”
Chris Rock Will Speak On Will Smith Oscars Slap — On One Condition
Rock has already made it clear he wants a nice payday to talk about the infamous smack. During a sold-out show at the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California on April 8, Rock said he’d only discuss it in detail if he was getting a bag.
“I’m OK, I have a whole show, and I’m not talking about that until I get paid,” he said during his set. “Life is good. I got my hearing back.”
He did make a small joke about it shortly after Dave Chappelle was attacked mid-set at The Hollywood Bowl earlier this month. Rock, who was in attendance along with Jamie Foxx and several other celebrities, returned to the stage after the chaos had subsided and asked, “Was that Will Smith?”
The closet Rock got to seriously discussing the slap was at a show in Boston just a few days after it happened: “I don’t have a bunch of shit about what happened, so if you came to hear that, I have a whole show I wrote before this weekend. I’m still kind of processing what happened. So, at some point I’ll talk about that shit. And it will be serious and funny.”
on sum real shit who tf cares about this anymore. chris is riding the wave, while will is chillin.
While Will is crying more like
Will is most likely curled up in the foetal position in bed crying himself to sleep
That my friends is how you turn a negative into a positive, use all that bs as free publicity for shows etc. No feminine shit like slapping, crying or getting cucked. Just a man who knows how to hustle and make people laugh.
I would be constantly making jokes about that whole weirdo family if I was Chris Rock
Man Chris rock stfu you didn’t do nothing that night. Stop going on and on like a female bruh
What could he have done that wouldn’t have fed into the stereotype that all Black men are violent and that they make attempt to restrain themselves! No dude Chris Rock has handled it perfectly and Will Smith (I’m sure) regrets he behaved like a thu, who lost in the end!
So now that changes The narrative of black men. Since Chris Rock didn’t stand up for himself now black men are no longer pilot? GTFOH. I guess you’d rather The narrative “black men are punks”. There is no excuse in the world for a man to let a man slap him and not do shit about it. Save me with that black man narrative bullshit. Chris Rock is a straight Bitch for that.
what a pussy a man punches not slap.
In the Bible one disciple ask the Lord how many times shall I forgive my brother and God say seven times seven times seven so with that being said forgive and let go and let God
I like. All I’m gonna say right now.