*Good Lord! Today it’s one bombshell after another coming from Jada Pinkett Smith. Earlier, we told you about the actress admitting she and Will Smith have been separated since 2016. Now we’re finding out that she was just as shocked as the rest of the world when her estranged husband slapped Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars ceremony.
In an interview with People that was published today (10-11-23), the “Set It Off” actress has given an official reaction to the controversial incident for the first time.
“I thought, ‘This is a skit,'” she told PEOPLE in an interview tied to her new memoir, Worthy, roughly 18 months after Smith approached Rock during the live telecast and hit him in the face after he made a joke about Pinkett Smith’s shaved head, the result of her alopecia. “I was like, ‘There’s no way that Will hit him.’ It wasn’t until Will started to walk back to his chair that I even realized it wasn’t a skit.”
After the incident, when the two of them were alone, Pinkett Smith recalled the first thing she said to Smith: She said she asked him, “Are you okay?”
She continued, “I’m going to be by his side, but also allow him to have to figure this out for himself.”
Of course, as we all now know, Smith was permitted to keep his Best Actor statuette, which he won later that night for his performance as Richard Williams in “King Richard.” on the other hand he was banned from Academy-related events for 10 years.
He eventually addressed the incident in a video later that year as well as in a November 2022 interview with Trevor Noah on The Daily Show, while Pinkett Smith called for Smith and Rock to “reconcile” on an episode of her now-canceled “Red Table Talk” show.
As we mentioned above, Pinkett Smith’s remarks follow a major revelation about her relationship with Smith, whom she married in 1997. As we noted earlier, the actress shockingly revealed to “Today” that the couple, who share two children, Jaden and Willow, have lived separate lives for nearly seven years.
“Why it fractured? That’s a lot of things, and I think by the time we got to 2016, we were just exhausted with trying,” Pinkett Smith told Hoda Kotb during the conversation. “I think we were both stuck in our fantasy of what we thought the other person should be.”
Watch the interview below.
View this post on Instagram
MORE NEWS ON EURWEB: Jada Pinkett Smith Admits She’s Been Separated From Will Smith Since 2016! – Fans Dismayed Over Floyd Mayweather’s Support of Israel + More | PicVIDEOs
We Publish News 24/7. Don’t Miss A Story. Click HERE to SUBSCRIBE to Our Newsletter Now!
