It’s the first time she’s spoken since her husband, Will Smith, slapped comedian Chris Rock onstage at the Oscars. “It’s a season for healing and I’m here for it,” Jada Pinkett Smith wrote for any Instagram post. No other words accompanied this sentence and the comments of the message were disabled.
This post follows Will Smith’s public apology to Chris Rock and the Oscar audience for his outburst of violence.
It was a joke by Chris Rock about the shaved head of Jada Pinkett Smith, suffering from alopecia – a disease causing significant hair loss, which she revealed to suffer from a few years ago – which had triggered the scandal.
Will Smith suddenly got on stage and slapped Chris Rock under the dumbfounded gaze of celebrities and viewers. The 53-year-old actor yelled at her, “Leave my wife’s name out of your fucking mouth!” once back in his chair.
” I was wrong “
“I would like to publicly apologize to you, Chris. What I did was inappropriate and I was wrong,” Will Smith wrote on his Instagram account on Monday.
“My behavior last night at the Oscars was unacceptable and inexcusable. Jokes at my expense are part of the job, but a joke about Jada’s health issue was too much for me and I reacted emotionally,” he explained, explicitly rejecting “any violence.”
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The Academy of Oscars had recently announced the opening of an internal investigation into this incident, stressing that it condemned “the actions of Mr. Smith during the show last night”. Chris Rock himself has not commented on the incident.