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Jada Pinkett gave an interview that revolutionized the world and confessed that she has been separated from her for seven years Will Smith in silence, and that it is an “emotional breakup” and not a paper one. Besides, He told a terrible story about his past with Chris Rock, which was one of the reasons that caused Smith’s outburst at the 2022 Oscars gala and ended in the punch that earned him his suspension from said party for a decade.

In an interview with PEOPLE The actress spoke about the episode that stained Will Smith’s career and became a meme that spread around the world. “I thought, ‘This is a parody.’ I thought, ‘There’s no way Will is going to hit him.’ The first words he said to Will once they were alone after the show were, ‘Are you okay?'” he said. the actresswho believed, in principle, that the pineapple at Chris Rock was part of a sketch and not an act of anger by the actor for a joke about his partner’s alopecia.

After recognizing this, the actress contributed a story from her past that is decisive in understanding the distance between Chris Rock and Will Smith: in said anecdote, Jada slipped that the comedian asked her out in 2016, after the media spread rumors of a relationship crisis with Will Smith. “I think every summer there were all the reports that Will and I were getting divorced. And this particular summer, Chris thought we were getting divorced. So he called me and basically said, ‘I’d love to ask you out.’ And I said, ‘What do you mean?’ He said, ‘Well, aren’t you and Will getting divorced? ‘I was like, ‘No.’ Chris, those are just rumors. He was horrified. And he apologized profusely and that was it,” he deepened.

Although the confusing episode did not escalate into a fight between Chris Rock and Will Smith, and the former was able to apologize to Jada Pinkett, the actors distanced themselves. The breaking point was the 2022 Oscars with the remembered pineapple of the actor from men in black. Despite his repeated requests for an apology after the mess at the gala, the Academy penalized the actor.

Chris Rock blamed Jada Pinkett for Will Smith slapping him

Chris Rock stars Selective Outragea live comedian show offered by Netflix where he talks about the 2022 Oscars incident, when Will Smith slapped him after he made a joke about his wife’s alopecia, Jada Pinkett Smith. And it is precisely her, Will Smith’s wife, the one he blames for what happened.

It was towards the end of the show when he mentioned the actress. “She started this shit,” he said, referring to the controversy sparked by a joke about the actress he made at the 2016 gala. That edition, which Rock presented, was involved in controversy due to the lack of diversity in the nominations and, under the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite, there were many who encouraged a boycott of the ceremony.

Among these voices was that of Jada herself, which Rock mentioned in his acidic monologue. “Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna’s panties, it doesn’t matter because no one had invited me,” Rock came to say. A joke that is the seed of what happened years later at the 2022 ceremony. But Rock even went further and said the slap had nothing to do with him, ensuring that it was the result of Smith’s frustration over his relationship with his wife who, he recalled, “slept with her son’s friend.” An infidelity that both made public in Red Table TalkJada’s show on the Internet.

“Everyone insulted Will for putting up with Jada’s affair, but I’m the one he hit,” Rock noted. “She hurt him more than he hurt me,” he said. “It is what it is. She started it all. I finished it,” she clarified. Rock He also revealed that people often ask him if the slap hurt. “Yes, she hurt me. It still hurts me. I have Summertime ringing in my ears. But I’m not a victim. You’ll never see me on Oprah. “I took the hit like Manny Pacquiao,” he said.

2023-10-12 00:53:02
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