She admits that the slap she still hurts Will Smith gave him in front of millions of viewers during the Oscars ceremony last year, but Chris Rock he seems to want to keep tickling the Smiths anyway. Far from trying to calm the waters, the comedian recently starred in a live special on Netflix, where he spoke for the first time about the incident with the actor and harshly attacked the marriage. Sources close to Will and his wife, Jada Pinkett SmithThey affirm that the comedian has been obsessed with the wife of the Oscar-winning actor for 30 years.
“You all know what happened to me, when Smith hit me. Everybody knows. He hit me like a year ago…and people say, ‘Did it hurt?’ It still hurts. I have ‘summertime’ ringing in my ears,” Rock said during the live broadcast of the comedy special. Selective Outrageheld at the Hippodrome Theater in Baltimore with a live audience.
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This has been Rock’s biggest performance since last year’s Oscar scandal, in which Will Smith stormed the Academy Awards stage and slapped Chris over a prank made at the expense of his wife, Jada Pinkett. . And the persistent persecution against her is what sources close to the Smiths have tried to explain after Rock’s public performance.
On the comedy show, Chris harshly explained that Will Smith had slapped him because he had had enough of hearing comments about his open marriage and his wife, who once revealed her 2015 affair with the rapper. August Alsinaa friend of his son Jaden.
“Will Smith practices ‘selective outrage,'” said the comedian. “I had nothing to do with that shit. I had no ‘entanglement’. His wife was fucking his son’s friend. Normally he wouldn’t talk about this shit… I have no idea why two talented people would do something so fucked up. She hurt him much more than he hurt me,” explained the comedian during the show, referring to the program Red Table Talkwhere Will appeared with Jada Pinkett and she revealed her 2015 fling with the young rapper.
Rock assured in the program that all of Hollywood had called Jade a “bitch” for this: “and who did he hit? Me,” he said to the laughter of the audience.
Chris Rock, 30 years obsessed with Jade
After these statements that were part of the content of his new comedy show, the Smiths’ environment has defended itself and they have accused the monologist of “being obsessed with Jada for decades.” The source close to Jada explained that she had nothing to do with the drama between Chris and her husband; “She’s had no part of her in all of this other than being booed. Chris is obsessed with her and that’s been going on for almost 30 years.”
Those close to the Smiths point to details such as the fact that the comedian chose to record his Netflix special in Baltimore, the hometown of Will’s wife: “he is obsessed,” they insist. The same sources told the magazine People that they “were surprised by the number of times Chris used the word vixen when referring to Jada.”
The sources consulted insisted that she has never told Chris not to present the Oscars, which the showman also complained about during the show, “on the other hand, he has always publicly supported him to be the one presented at the gala.” . As confirmed, Will Smith’s wife is focused on continuing with his life and on the launch of his next book. Will and Jada have been married since 1997 and have two children together, Jaden, also an actor, and Willow. Smith also has another son, Treyfrom a previous marriage.
The moment Will Smith gets up to hit Chris Rock after he joked with Jada and ‘GI Jane’ 2. Was it real or staged? #Oscars pic.twitter.com/fmnkm3DF97
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Will picked up the Oscar for Best Actor at the 2022 Academy Awards, but the night will forever be remembered for the incident in which he slapped guest host Chris Rock, who was onstage at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles to present the Best Documentary award, when he made a comment about Pinkett Smith’s appearance: “Jada, I love you. GI Jane 2, I can’t wait to see you,” he joked, referring to Jada’s shaved head and the film La sargento O’Neil in which Demi Moore he appeared with that look after shaving his head.
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Following the comment, Will took the stage, slapped Rock hard across the face after yelling, “Get my wife’s name out of your fucking mouth,” while the host responded with much surprise, “Hey, it was just… without acknowledging that the joke had not been in good taste.