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At around 10 p.m. ET, everyone watching the Oscars collectively asked, “Was that real?” and “What just happened?” Will Smith had just walked up onto the Oscars stage to slap Chris Rock across the face as the comedian was in the middle of presenting the award for Best Documentary. Now, the Oscars have been known to do bits that have fallen flat before, so it took everyone a moment to realize that, No, this was really happening.
Chris Rock arrived onstage to do some light roasting of the audience, including making a joke about Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz, but then he turned his eyes onto Will Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. “Jada, I love you, G.I. Jane 2, can’t wait to see it,” he said, making a crack about Jada’s shaved head look. Whoever he was going to turn on next was spared, as Smith then walked up on stage, went straight for Chris, and slapped him. In the U.S., the telecast was quickly muted, leaving many to wonder if what was happening was even real. Tweets from the media present and uncensored video from around the world quickly answered that question: Yep, it was very, very real.
According to the uncensored video, Smith slapped Rock and then yelled, “Keep my wife’s name out of your fucking mouth.” Rock yelled after him that it was a “G.I. Jane joke!” After a few moments, the sound came back and Rock went on with his presenting duties. Later, when Sean Combs arrived onstage to present a retrospective on The Godfather, he addressed the scuffle, saying, “Will and Chris, we’re gonna solve that like family at the Gold Party.”
Roughly an hour later, Smith was back onstage — accepting the award for Best Actor. In his speech he said:
Smith went on to apologize to the Academy and his fellow nominees, admitting “love will make you do crazy things.”
According to Vanity Fair senior correspondent Rebecca Ford, during the commercial break that followed, Denzel Washington approached Smith and spoke to him briefly. “Denzel now has his arm around Jada and is kneeling next to her even though the show has started,” she tweeted. In his acceptance speech, Smith revealed what Washington told him: “Denzel said to me, ‘At your highest moment, be careful — that’s when the devil comes for you.’”
Smith’s anger was shocking to those watching at home, but there is some history as to why he might have defended his wife this way. Jada has been open about her struggle with alopecia and hair loss, which is why she decided to shave her head. In December of 2021, she took to Instagram to explain that she would be “[taking] it down to the scalp,” adding, “Me and this alopecia are going to be friends.”
Photo: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images
At around 10 p.m. ET, everyone watching the Oscars collectively asked, “Was that real?” and “What just happened?” Will Smith had just walked up onto the Oscars stage to slap Chris Rock across the face as the comedian was in the middle of presenting the award for Best Documentary. Now, the Oscars have been known to do bits that have fallen flat before, so it took everyone a moment to realize that, No, this was really happening.
Chris Rock arrived onstage to do some light roasting of the audience, including making a joke about Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz, but then he turned his eyes onto Will Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. “Jada, I love you, G.I. Jane 2, can’t wait to see it,” he said, making a crack about Jada’s shaved head look. Whoever he was going to turn on next was spared, as Smith then walked up on stage, went straight for Chris, and slapped him. In the U.S., the telecast was quickly muted, leaving many to wonder if what was happening was even real. Tweets from the media present and uncensored video from around the world quickly answered that question: Yep, it was very, very real.
According to the uncensored video, Smith slapped Rock and then yelled, “Keep my wife’s name out of your fucking mouth.” Rock yelled after him that it was a “G.I. Jane joke!” After a few moments, the sound came back and Rock went on with his presenting duties. Later, when Sean Combs arrived onstage to present a retrospective on The Godfather, he addressed the scuffle, saying, “Will and Chris, we’re gonna solve that like family at the Gold Party.”
Roughly an hour later, Smith was back onstage — accepting the award for Best Actor. In his speech he said:
Smith went on to apologize to the Academy and his fellow nominees, admitting “love will make you do crazy things.”
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According to Vanity Fair senior correspondent Rebecca Ford, during the commercial break that followed, Denzel Washington approached Smith and spoke to him briefly. “Denzel now has his arm around Jada and is kneeling next to her even though the show has started,” she tweeted. In his acceptance speech, Smith revealed what Washington told him: “Denzel said to me, ‘At your highest moment, be careful — that’s when the devil comes for you.’”
Smith’s anger was shocking to those watching at home, but there is some history as to why he might have defended his wife this way. Jada has been open about her struggle with alopecia and hair loss, which is why she decided to shave her head. In December of 2021, she took to Instagram to explain that she would be “[taking] it down to the scalp,” adding, “Me and this alopecia are going to be friends.”
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