The 94th Academy Awards has been a trending Twitter topic since Will Smith casually walked up to Chris Rock and smacked him across the face on live television. The seasoned actor/MC sprung into action after the comedian made a G.I. Jane joke about Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett, which apparently sent him over the edge.
On Monday (March 28), the former Fresh Prince of Bel-Air star issued an official apology to Rock and took full accountability for the very public assault. Around the same time, a purported apology from Chris Rock to Pinkett, Smith and the rest of their family started making the rounds. However, Rock’s team has officially shut that down.
According to The Hollywood Reporter‘s Senior Film Editor Rebecca Keegan, “Chris Rock has not yet issued a statement. There is a statement going around purporting to be from Rock that is not from him, per his team. It’s the one that starts, ‘As a comedian it can be difficult to understand…'”
While Chris Rock’s apology is reportedly fake, Smith’s is not only real but seemingly genuine.
“Violence in all of its forms is poisonous and destructive,” Smith wrote in an Instagram post. “My behavior at last night’s Academy Awards was unacceptable and inexcusable. Jokes at my expense are a part of the job, but a joke about Jada’s medical condition was too much for me to bear and I reacted emotionally.
“I would like to publicly apologize to you, Chris. I was out of line and I was wrong. I am embarrassed and my actions were not indicative of the man I want to be. There is no place for violence in a world of love and kindness.”
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Rock declined to press charges against Will Smith, which the Los Angeles Police Department acknowledged in a statement.
“LAPD investigative entities are aware of an incident between two individuals during the Academy Awards program,” the statement read. “The incident involved one individual slapping another. The individual involved has declined to file a police report. If the involved party desires a police report at a later date, LAPD will be available to complete an investigative report.”
As for the bogus apology, check it out below.
So they want smoke? LOL. Could have put it out right there.
He has nothing to apologize for. He kept it professional because that shit could have gone all the way left, but I would never speak to his bitch as from now on out. Fuck Will Smith. He’s also better than me because if it was me, I’d be taking half his net worth before his wife gets her half when they finally divorce.
Right. Respect to Chris Rock for keeping it icy. If they started scrappin’ on stage, it would’ve been complete buffoonery.
Just wait til Rochelle get ahold of poor ugly botox chris rock! Ha!
WTF he gotta apologize for? If Jada wasn’t living so grimey, she would’ve laughed it off. Instead, she gave Will ‘the look’ and he did his best 2Pac impersonation.
For never being funny maybe
Poor Chris Rock gon get the belt once Rochelle get ahold of him! Ugly botox chris rock!
Chris Rock is corny and safe that’s why white elites love him
Will Smith is done. He’s exposed him self as a fake role model and a simp enforcer for a woman who destroyed his image in the eyes of his fans. He laughed at the joke and then assaulted Chris to make it up to Jada who was not laughing. Rabid, insane behavior. He needs to be checked into a mental institution.
Chris rock as nothing to apologise for. Will did a clown move. He needs to get out of that “marriage”.
F—-Will Smith. This lack of control gives the white man a reason to be able to put a black man in his place, and justify how they feel about black people.
Keep my name out your fucking mouth before you get smacked like Chris Rock’s bitch ass!
I can’t watch a TV show without explicit sex scenes or same sex doing whatever they want but Will slapping him on TV a big deal. Chris did it for brownie points but they left him to deal with the consequence now you mad. Nobody laughed at the offensive joke. Nor did he humiliate the other husbands wives
Yes, Chris Rock deserved it. And Chris did not have the class or dignity to apologize to Jada and Will Smith. He is a coward! Will Smith is taking all the heat and Chris Rock is hidings his head in the sand. Chris Rock lacks consideration for others except for himself it’s all about him! Most of the time his ego gets in the way at the price of others. Chris Rock is equally responsible for what happened, should apologize publicly and personally to Jada And Will Smith. I am sorry to say I have lost respect for Chris Rock and no longer a fan. Too bad.
I will however, continue to be a fan of Will Smith and Jada Smith. They are both great actors. I am so proud for Will Smith for winning the Academy Award, he deserves ie. I waited for years for Will to finally win the Oscar.
You’re delusional. Chris Rock should be commended for holding back after being hit. Will is messy in every aspect of his life. They make it sound like everyone should know jada has that condition, I had no clue who’s to say he knew?
Much worse has been said at the Oscar’s and Will was totally out of line.
Nobody laughed? Will Smith laughed. Watch the video again.
I genuinely think Will Smiths career to be over now.
WILL AND JADA ARE JOKES. CHRIS ROCK IS THE MAN IN THIS AND WILL IS A BABY WITH A MESSED UP RELATIONSHIT. HE TOOK ALL HIS CRAP OUT ON CHRIS AND ITS PROBABLY MOSTLY JADAS FAULT WHY WILL IS SO UPTIGHT AND READY TO EXPLODE. SHE HAS ALOCPICIA, SHE NOT DYING… SHES A SUCCESSFUL ACTOR… THE EGO IS RIDICULOUS.
Shot out to the idiots below who don’t understand a joke from a COMEDIAN doesn’t warrant physical violence. The joke wasn’t even that bad!
All of you hoes taking Chris Rock’s side need a good smack in the mouth too. You’re exposing yourselves as disrespectful punks, just like your boy. I hope you get run over by 17 buses and FUCKING DIE!!!!!!!
I think that Chris Rock shouldn’t have been joking about someone sickness in any way he’s the one that was in the wrong shame on him he should be the one apologizing
You’re wrong on ALL counts.
Chris DID NOT cross any lines AT ALL by making an absolutely HARMLESS joke about a bald woman resembling G.I. Jane (which she does lol), and the fact that she has an INCREDIBLY COMMON, NON life threatening cosmetic medical issue, in NO WAY changes that FACT. In addition, it’s BEYOND laughable that people are reacting as if Chris said something along the lines of “haha, you’re dying of stage 4 cancer!” Lol. The comparison is ABSOLUTELY PATHETIC.
The LAST thing Chris should do is APOLOGIZE.
Not only does he not have ANYTHING to apologize for, but it sets a TERRIBLE precedent going forward.
The world is already bass ackwards enough. The LAST thing we need is a world where comedians start apologizing to any and everyone they offend with a harmless JOKE, for fear of PHYSICAL ASSAULT lmao.
You “TEAM WILL” people are NEXT LEVEL delusional and confused lol.
Yeah, and you “TEAM CHRIS” people need to have your heads caved in with a baseball bat. Little snotty bitches with “jokes”, you deserve a severe beat down. Get out from your mom’s basement and pop shit like that to some grown ass men. You’ll be picking your teeth up, you little nasty gremlin fuck.
Until Chris Rock apologizes to Jada Pinkett-Smith, I refuse to waste my time feeling any sympathy for him.
No one cares about your sensitive feelings. Chris made a little joke. No one was heavily harmed about it except Will acting like the manchild he is.
Chris rock didn’t resort to violence. No need to apology.
Women mad about bald people jokes now? like male pattern baldness isnt a medical condition and hasn’t been the butt of jokes for eternities…? Haha right… i “feel for you”… jk
I think Chris has nothing to apologize about,I’ve always thought that was a great hairstyle for Jada and didn’t know about any disease,only she and Megan good can wear that style(sorry Tiffany) but I guess now the red table is the black and blue table. Will and Jada have put so much of their life out there and now you want to get picky about the joke which was just a joke and she is still a beautiful lady hair or no hair .So Chris stay strong you hav nothing to apologize for and Will don’t put your self out there if you can’t take a joke.
Fuck your jokes, Eleanor. Too many people running around out here talking sideways and trying to pass it off as “jokes”. Btw, I hope your mom gets cancer and fucking dies. Hahahahahaha! Jokes! Right, Eleanor?
Lol dude, the real joke is your mama didn’t abort you!
Nah, the REAL joke is gonna be when you run your mouth to the wrong person and get snuffed for it. If it was me, I’d laugh along with you and make you think everything’s cool. Then I’d catch you slipping a few days later and mangle your legs with a crowbar. Probably knock your teeth out for good measure. Then when I see your crippled, toothless ass in a wheelchair sipping your lunch from a straw, I’d laugh hysterically. Jokes bitch.
Chris Rock should apologize to Jada Smith. Making fun of women and especially one with a chronic disease, is not acceptable. Would he have said that if someone’s wife had no hair because she had breast cancer and undergoing treatment? Would that be okay with people who think he shouldn’t apologize? I’m sick of women being discriminated against and humiliated by men who should know better.
Her chronic disease is being a 304 fucking other dudes while she married. Screw her.
I agree, Chris Rock needs to apologize to the whole Smith family, but knowing people that know Chris Rock… he won’t. He is a jerk outside of his “roles”..wait know he is still a jerk there too! It was insensitive, in his usual over egotistical way.
Chris Rock should make a public apology to Jada Pinkett Smth. His poor taste joke was cruel, insensitive, rude and sexist!
So now, a joke only works when it insulting? Take responsibility for what comes out of your mouth. It was purposely disrespectful. Rock knew what he was doing. His mouth wrote a check his ass couldn’t cash.
I like how you posted multiple times under different names while liking yourself to try and make yourself look more valid. Talk about desperate and oversensitive. You act like Chris attacked her and was hoping she would drop dead. He made a little joke that had very little to no actual harm and offense. Man, even Jada had much thicker skin than her husband and you crybabies. Grow up.
Rock said he didn’t know she had alopecia and if you know anything about the condition, she doesn’t look like she does have it. I think she fabricated the story for attention. She jumped right on social media and talk shows with the “news” of her “disease”. She probably just shaved her head. You can see the hair roots underneath. There’s a different look with alopecia. Most viewers didn’t understand what the insult was either. Jada can hold her own, she seems to do just fine kicking her husband around. I hope Rock sues. Smith deserves some form of punishment since the Academy isn’t going to do anything about it.
I agree, Chris new exactly what he was saying! I don’t necessarily agree with Will’s Slap but Will protected his wife. If it was anyone of these people sticking up for Rock that had a disease/cancer causing hair loss and that Jack/ I meant Rock said something you could bet they would have reacted to his stupid comments. But because it is Will Smith and actor he is supposed to let Chris Rock say whatever? I don’t think that is how it works.
jesus christ troll much.
Jada has been smacking Will longer than Will has been slapping Chris Rock. She emasculates him every time she speaks, and Will emasculated himself on TV over a joke. A lot of people commenting on this are showing your inner Will Smith.
It is time for Chris Rock to get the lawyers on this one.
I hope CHRIS ROCK hire the most expensive attorney he can find and sue will smith’s “less than a man” azz for attorney fees and General Damages for emotional distress and PTSD payable fir the rest of CHRIS ROCK’s life or for as long as the humiliation last
you are sick, what is wrong with you!? PTSD, REALLY!? CHRIS LITIRALLY MADE AN INHUMANE JOKE ABOUT A MEDICAL CONDITION, AND HES GONNA HAVE PTSD!? you people are sick, and rude. Will did slap him through the face, it was wron, he said sorry. Chris however didnt, he made a fake apology and didnt sue so he could keep hi “pride”. BULSHIT!!!
Chris Rock was the man Sunday, now he needs to put some spinal cord into it and sue the pants off Smith. That moment of humiliation will last forever. Smith owes Rock a helluva lot more than a flimsy apology on Twitter.
I agree ☝?
You make me sick “KSweatman” with your comment, i sure wish strangers will insult your loved ones one day and we’ll see how you’ll react, (probably coware)
WHY IS EVERYONE ON CRIS SIDE!? Will said sorry, and Chris had the audacity to make a fake apology. GET IT IN UR HEAD PEOPLE, Chris made a joke that was offensive to Smith, he reacted, and felt bad, STOP BIENG PICES OF SHIT TO SOMONE WHO ACTED OUT OF CARE AND LOVE FOR HIS WIFE!!!!
CHRIS ROCK ISNT SUING BECAUSE OF THE CLOTH HES CUT FROM.