*Will Smith has “tried unsuccessfully” to make amends with Chris Rock after slapping him at the 94th Academy Awards.
A source tells PEOPLE that Smith has “felt terrible for so long” about the incident. “He’s tried unsuccessfully to make amends in the best way he could with Chris,” adds the source.
The tea spiller claims Smith “leaned” on his family in the aftermath of the assault, saying their support “has helped him look inside and mature. He is better but still remorseful.”
“Will listened to those who tried to help him and feels that he has become a better person,” the source added.
Meanwhile, Rock addressed the slap in his new Netflix comedy special Chris Rock: Selective Outrage which dropped on Saturday. In it, Rock makes clear that he is “not a victim, baby; you’ll never see me on Oprah or Gayle, crying. You will never see it. Never gonna happen,” he said.
As PEOPLE reports, Rock joked that he got “smacked by Suge Smith.”
“I got smacked at the f—ing Oscars by this m—-f—er. And people are like, ‘Did it hurt?’ It still hurts!” said Rock.
He also took aim at Smith and his marriage to Jada Pinkett Smith by subtly mocking Jada’s “entanglement” with singer August Alsina.
Last June, Jada addressed the Oscars incident during an episode of her Red Table Talk show, saying her “deepest hope is that these two intelligent, capable men have an opportunity to heal, talk this out and reconcile.”
“With the state of the world today, we need ’em both, and we all actually need one another more than ever,” Pinkett-Smith added at the time. “Until then, Will and I are continuing to do what we have done for the last 28 years, and that’s [to] keep figuring out this thing called life together.”
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