after initially laughing at chris rock's
joke what led will smith to get up walk
on stage and slap the comedian at the
oscars ceremony is there bad blood in
their past keep watching for the details
there have been plenty of memorable and
even shocking academy awards moments
over the years but at the 2022 oscars
one was so unexpected that it's next to
impossible for anyone watching to forget
a little over halfway through the show
comedian chris rock took to the stage to
present the award for best documentary
as rock made what he believed was
standard issue jokes about some of the
celebs in the audience he turned his
attention to will smith and jada pinkett
smith both of whom were seated near the
stage rock made a joke about pinkett
smith's shaved head saying he couldn't
wait to see her in gi jane too a
reference to the 1997 movie starring
demi moore will then took to the stage
and slapped rock in the face before
taking his seat and yelling at the
presenter
keep my wife's name out of your mouth i
think
i don't just got mad the baffling turn
of events derailed the entire oscar show
and the knight never really recovered
from it viewers immediately reacted on
twitter appearing to neither condone
smith's actions nor deem rock's joke
acceptable shortly after will smith won
the best actor award for his titular
role in king richard he took the stage
clearly emotional about what just
happened though he apologized to the
academy it is very likely that there was
a deeper reason for smith so publicly
and suddenly defending his wife on live
television as of the making of this
video neither smith nor pinkett smith
have issued an official statement about
what occurred at the 2022 oscars aside
from will's acceptance speech
they've also offered no explanation for
will's reaction to rock's joke but it
clearly cut deeper than the comedian
intended shortly after variety executive
editor ramin satuda confirmed on twitter
that smith hitting rock and yelling at
him was not a planned or scripted bit
tweets rolled in reminding everyone that
pinkett smith has alopecia she first
went public with her diagnosis on her
facebook live show red table talk in
2018. she said i was in the shower one
day and then just handfuls of hair just
in my hands and i was just like oh my
god am i going bald in december 2021 she
opened up about her hair loss on
instagram telling her followers
y'all know i've been
with alopecia and
just all of a sudden one day
look at this line right here
knowing that pinkett smith is living
with an autoimmune disease makes it
slightly more understandable why her
husband did not take kindly to rock
mocking her hair loss so publicly
particularly since it's a condition with
which she has clearly struggled as seen
in the live telecast though will
initially laughed at the joke jada was
visibly unamused it's also entirely
possible that will smith's anger at
chris rock pre-dates the 2022 academy
awards because this isn't the first time
rock has publicly joked about pinkett
smith on stage at the oscars in 2016
pinker smith refused to attend the
ceremony boycotting the event due to the
awards once again having an all-white
slate of acting nominees the smiths
weren't the only notable hollywood
talent to ditch the ceremony either
other celebrities to skip the event
according to the independent included
ava duvernay spike lee and ryan coogler
yet when chris rugg took to the oscars
stage as that year's host it was pinkett
smith he chose as his target he implied
she wasn't invited at all saying
jada said she's not coming i was like
isn't she on a tv show at the time
pinkett smith publicly dismissed rock's
commentary but she and her husband's
private feelings about the matter may
have been different from what she said
publicly whether it was a long-standing
bad blood or a knee-jerk reaction to a
joke will smith's actions certainly took
the academy awards to a strange place
that will not be forgotten for a long
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