Jada Pinkett Smith says she thought Will Smith’s Oscars slap was ‘a skit’
The incident at the 2022 Oscars where Will Smith approached Chris Rock has finally been addressed by Jada Pinkett Smith. She admitted that she had at first thought it was all a staged performance.
The 55-year-old Smith, a Best Actor candidate and ultimately winner, entered the stage and approached the comedian after he made a joke about Jada’s hair while presenting the prize for Best Documentary Feature.
The 52-year-old Pinkett Smith revealed to People magazine while seated next to Smith in the front row:
“I thought, ‘This is a skit’.
“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 realised it wasn’t a skit.”
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Upon being alone with her husband after the show, her initial words to him were, “Are you OK?”
In another part of the interview, the actress from “Girls Trip” disclosed that she and Smith had been living separately for six years by the time of the Oscars incident.
Their marriage, a topic of ongoing speculation, remains a work in progress, as the actress shared, “We’re still figuring it out.”
Pinkett Smith and Smith have been married since 1997 and are parents to two children – 25-year-old Jaden and 22-year-old daughter Willow.
Jada Pinkett Smith says she thought Will Smith’s Oscars slap was ‘a skit’
