Jada Pinkett Smith says she hopes Will Smith and Chris Rock “heal” and “reconcile” after Oscars slap
Pinkett Smith addressed the unforgettable moment in the latest episode of her Facebook Live series Red Table Talk
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It was the hand-to-face contact heard ‘round the world. When Will Smith leapt onstage at the 94th Academy Awards earlier this year to slap host Chris Rock. After the altercation—which sparked after Rock made an off-color joke at Jada Pinkett Smith’s expense—it seemed like the internet, nation, and potentially the universe at large were left divided. But in Pinkett Smith’s opinion, what Smith and Rock really need is reunification.
On today’s episode of Pinkett Smith’s Facebook Live series Red Table Talk, the actress addressed the slap as part of an episode discussing alopecia—an autoimmune disorder causing hair loss, one that Pinkett Smith herself has.
The joke that ultimately left Rock with a sore jaw in the morning related to Pinkett Smith’s hair, or lack thereof. The punchline referred to Pinkett Smith as “G.I. Jane.”
“Considering what I’ve been through with my own health and what happened at the Oscars, thousands have reached out to me with their stories,” Pinkett Smith said during the episode.
Although her celebrity peers were quick to take sides (ranging from Judd Apatow’s apparent belief Smith could have “killed” Rock to son Jaden Smith’s belief that “That’s How We Do It”), Pinkett Smith said her greatest wish is for Rock and Smith to have an opportunity to work things through.
“Now about Oscar night, my deepest hope is that these two intelligent, capable men have an opportunity to heal, talk this out and reconcile,” Pinkett Smith added. “The state of the world today, we need them both. And we all actually need one another more than ever.”
Smith made a first step to reconciling just a day after the slap, posting a heartfelt apology to Rock on Instagram and resigning from his role as a member of the Academy. The Academy, in their own response, banned Smith from all their events (including, of course, the Oscars) for the next 10 years. Though Rock has yet to directly address the incident, he’s made slight allusions to the moment in jokes on his recent tour.
Whatever happens next between her husband and Rock, well, Pinkett Smith doesn’t plan on shifting her current focus. “Will and I are continuing to do what we have done for the last 28 years, and that’s keep figuring out this thing called life together,” Pinkett Smith shared.
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To translate, this is Jada telling Will to go make amends because the spice money must flow. And he will obey.
I thought she was offering to bang Rock while her husband watched
Good god, what a pompous ratbag
Interesting way to describe a woman of color
literally not a single racial or gendered connotation there. Nice try, loser. Learn to read.
Hi MRA
Hi another virtue signaling troll who was meant to rot on these boards. No one is talking about MRA. Quit regurgitating talking points from Twitter on here. Everything you post here is disingenuous horseshit so you lobby insults and accusations against others to cover your lack of original opinions and intelligence just like many other miserable failed creatives on here who can also eat shit
Says the guy who’s defending racism in the Star Wars post
You’re an idiot
After repeatedly refusing to accept a female lawyer’s expertise on legal matters awhile back, I’m kind of amazed to see how ridiculously self-righteous you can be.
You know it’s possible to criticize a WOC without comparing her to an animal, right?
Hey stupid! A ratbag isn’t an animal.https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ratbaghttps://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=RatbagGo ahead. Point out the racism or the reference to animals, dumbfuck.
A ratbag is not a type of animal. Look up the definition of rat bag and once again LEARN. TO. READ!You are the one now referring to Jada as an animal, projecting your own racist bs onto others but what else is new for you on here?Big loss today for bad faith liars who like to make up narratives to. I wasn’t defending anything racist like you are currently defending Amber Heard. Yikes. You obsess over racist Star Wars fans since they’re the only people on the planet who are more of a waste of life than people like you.
Why yes I am happy to defend a victim of abuse and rape
cool. I am also a victim of abuse and rape. I said it online, so it is therefore true. Now you have to defend me and everything I say on here. Just going by your logic and how you process things.
Lol I like how you’re furious at people who allegedly lie about being abused and yet you have no compunction whatsoever about doing it yourself when it serves your purposes
You actually don’t know if I am lying or not! Mainly because no one has literally proven me to be lying about it in a court of law, unlike those you defend.
“I said it online, so it is therefore true.”Nah, context is a thing.
without comparing her to an animalBEHOLD, THE MIGHTY RAT BAG! FIERCEST OF ALL THE RODENTS!
ahem, that’s a bag rat.
Imagine still choosing to defend the Smith’s (the family or the band) instead of doing something more productive with your time like committing sepuku.
Fuck off
nopenopenopenopenope
Imagine how childish you have to be to have a burner account that says nothing but fuck off to people
She is full of it and you know it! That entire family needs mental counseling!
lmao shut the fuck up troll 😂
Fuck off, you self-righteous twatwaffle.
I hope they don’t and they attend more live events together. That tension would be priceless and more entertaining than most of what’s on TV.
Fuck the Smith family. Fuck ’em.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/29/entertainment/jada-pinkett-smith-alopecia/index.html“Now at this point, I can only laugh”Article about Jada immediately after her alopecia diagnosis.
This whole family is so incredibly annoying.
If you’re super-rich in Hollywood, is it just inevitable that you eventually talk like Gwyneth Paltrow?
Aren’t they a hot mess!
What do you mean “ultimately left Rock with a sore jaw”? Did someone off-camera punch him for real that might’ve actually hurt?
Dude’s 57. Maybe he’s got some early bone density loss?
My impression is that Rock doesn’t need any time to “heal”, no matter how many members of that family try to get him to co-star in their psychodrama. Like he said at his first show afterwards, he’ll talk about what happened after he “gets paid”.
He’s a grown man who got slapped with an open palm. Smith shouldn’t have done it, but it shouldn’t be, and I get the sense, isn’t, some physically or psychologically devastating event for a healthy adult. The fact that we’re talking about it like a national trauma is 100% down to it happening on TV. All the conversation, including this comment, is absolutely making it worse.
Insufferable family, everyone of them.
What did Willow do?
Have you not seen that ridiculous interview with her mother where she claims the hair video led her to cutting herself? It was like her mom scripted the entire thing.
Whipped her hair back and forth.
She’s a sociopath, so I say she can STFU and GTFO.
The fact she won’t address WHY this happened makes this quote virtually meaningless.Bitch, this happened cause of you. Own up to it and your toxic behavior toward your husband.
So she can control the actions of a grown adult to the extent that he will slap people when she gives him the eye signal?
Silly. He chose to do that.
It’s not her fault she rolled her eyes at a joke. It was Will Smith that decided, after laughing at it, that he had to go up on stage.
Jada fucks her son’s friends. She’s a creepy pervert weirdo.
Alopecia is such a minor thing, especially if you are as rich as the smiths. She could have done what millions of black women do and wear a wig. She could have gotten implants and treatments. Instead she decided to be an attention whore over a little hair loss.
I almost feel sorry for Will Smith. It sucks being in love with a crazy person.
Play that puppet strings, Jada. Play that puppet strings.
“When Will Smith leapt onstage at the 94th Academy Awards …”Come on, leapt? Smith walked (not “ran”) onto the stage. He did it so calmly that I felt for sure this was some sort of pre-rehearsed bit.