Actor Will Smith stormed himself into the middle of what some consider the most scandalous moment in Oscars history Sunday when he physically confronted comedian Chris Rock over a poorly received joke, only to seemingly shrug off the incident later.
Smith’s emotional rollercoaster commenced at the 94th Academy Awards when Rock took the stage for the presentation for Best Documentary Feature. Practicing his trade, the comedian poked fun at the assembly of stars before turning his humor toward Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.
“Jada, I love you,” Rock began simply enough before stating, “G.I. Jane 2, can’t wait to see ya.”
Here's the moment Chris Rock made a "G.I. Jane 2" joke about Jada Pinkett Smith, prompting Will Smith to punch him and yell, "Leave my wife’s name out of your f–king mouth." #Oscars pic.twitter.com/kHTZXI6kuL
— Variety (@Variety) March 28, 2022
Will Smith can be seen laughing lightly at the reference to Jada’s hairstyle while his wife appears to cringe at the remark. As the cameras return to the stage, any interaction between the couple cannot be seen as Rock looks back at them and defends the joke stating, “That was a nice one.”
“Uh-oh,” is all Rock had to offer when Smith walked straight up to him and slapped him across the face for the remark before the offended actor returned to his seat and hurled profanities at the comedian.
“Keep my wife’s name out of your f*cking mouth!” Smith shouted after Rock told the audience “Wow, Will Smith just smacked the sh*t out of me.”
According to the Daily Mail, Jada has been openly struggling with a balding condition known as alopecia which made the reference to the Demi Moore military film more offensive than humorous to the Smiths.
Later in the evening, Smith was emotional when he accepted the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Richard Williams, the father to tennis players Venus and Serena Williams, in “King Richard.”
Here's Will Smith's tearful acceptance speech at the #Oscars. https://t.co/ulvT7fsB57 pic.twitter.com/Uq2krBbBld
— Variety (@Variety) March 28, 2022
“Richard Williams was a fierce defender of his family,” his acceptance speech began to mixed reactions as he called back to slapping Rock earlier. “In this time in my life, in this moment I am overwhelmed by what God is calling on me to do.”
“I’m called on in my life to love people and to protect people and to be a river to my people,” Smith continued. He also issued an apology to the event and its participants, but not to Rock.
“I want to apologize to the Academy, I want to apologize to all my fellow nominees,” he tearfully offered. “This is a beautiful moment.”
When Smith left the stage, actors Tyler Perry and Denzel Washington could be seen speaking to Smith and reportedly consoling him.
Following the moment in which Will Smith seemingly slapped Chris Rock at the #Oscars, Smith is comforted by Tyler Perry and Denzel Washington. He appears to wipe away tears before rejoining his wife pic.twitter.com/TyXPQe1WGY
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) March 28, 2022
Washington offered sage advice that was perhaps meant to balance and realign Smith after his remark that he was doing “what God is calling on me to do.”
“At your highest moment, be careful,” Washington said. “That’s when the devil comes for you.”
Rock had previously made jokes about the Smiths at the 2016 Oscars where Will Smith had failed to garner a nomination for his performance in “Concussion.”
“Jada got mad, said she’s not coming,” Rock stated. “Jada boycotting the Oscars is like my boycotting Rihanna’s panties. I wasn’t invited. You get mad. It’s not fair that Will was this good and didn’t get nominated. It’s also not fair that Will was paid $20 million for ‘Wild Wild West.'”
According to the Los Angeles Police Department, no assault charges have been filed by Rock but they are prepared to conduct a full investigative report if requested.
The Los Angeles Police Department told @ABC News it is aware of the onstage altercation between Will Smith and Chris Rock, but no police report has been filed. https://t.co/F827hXsWGm pic.twitter.com/ITvGPCmDhr
— ABC News (@ABC) March 28, 2022
Later that night, Smith had appeared to put any negatives from the evening behind him as he was filmed at the Vanity Fair afterparty dancing and singing to some of his own songs with his Oscar in hand. When asked how he was doing, Smith responded, “It’s all love.”
Will Smith is at the @vanityfair party in the middle of the dance floor. Posing for pics. pic.twitter.com/T9FIxO5qYD
— Rebecca Ford (@Beccamford) March 28, 2022
Asked Will Smith how he’s doing and he said, “It’s all love.”#JustforVariety pic.twitter.com/E2EPiYx3Xh
— Marc Malkin (@marcmalkin) March 28, 2022
Will Smith is at the #VanityFairOscarParty dancing with his Oscar to ‘Gettin Jiggy With It.’ pic.twitter.com/PvKrRICQEN
— Ramin Setoodeh (@RaminSetoodeh) March 28, 2022
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25 thoughts on “Will Smith calmed by fellow actors after storming Oscar stage, assaulting Chris Rock: ‘Keep my wife’s name out of your f**king mouth’!”
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Was surprised Keanu Reeves wasn’t amongst best actors. He’s a much better actor. Oh I forgot Chia has boycotted him and any movie he has played in. Just saying
I hate the awards shows. As a woman with thinning hair, the joke was not funny, but since she had shaved her head one would think she had accepted her condition and would not be so super sensitive. I’m sure she could afford a nice wig. WS was wrong in what he did. What if it had been Kid Rock instead of Chris rock?
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson would’ve been even better!
blacks after blacks what new but id sue fjb
WGAF?
So, how deep is your love if you have an open marriage? That’s what the Smiths have.
The whites are going to go out and burn loot and murder people, NOT
Will Smith, along with Beyonce, are two Obama untouchables so nothing will happen. You can take the ‘groids out of the ghetto but…..
Animals! Need to change name to “Blackademy Awards”. And if Jada Pinkett-Smith is so easily offended by the mention of her alopecia, why make such “public(ity) awareness” of it, or wear a wig or even stay home? If everyone else is an acceptable target for a joke, as has ALWAYS been the case at the Oscars, why make such a big deal of it? As if they don’t have enough jokes in their family….look at the dress-wearing son!
Rock did it in good taste, he didn’t mention the illness by name. If it was a white actor who did that, he be arrested, racism chant to the abyss.
I read he wasn’t even aware of her alopecia. I mean geez, does she think she’s so popular that everyone should know about it?
“doing what God called me to do” – yeah, I get “GOD” put that “go slap the s999 out of him in his head”! People will hold him up as a HERO! Yes, someone who had made jokes about MANY in the audience,but HE had to react WITH VIOLENCE! I guess all the ridicule he’s absorbed due to his “colorful” family pushed him over the edge! I’d file charges anyway – you can’t do this!
Note to Comedy Central. Under NO circumstances should you EVER roast will smith. Who knows what manner of violence may erupt!
Well, Smith got a ton of free publicity. Rock, not so much. The Oscars are gutter games, nothing more.
He wants to be ”A river to his people”.
He’s more like a drainage ditch.
Very few watch this pathetic Hollyweird schitshow anymore… and the talentless Will Smith and his narcissistic gutterwhore Pinkett just add more stench to the Freak-show.
The pathetic Oscars and Will Smith’s violent actions and foul language just confirmed, no matter how rich and famous-you can still act like a low life ghetto thug. And the Oscar clown show of Hollywood elitists continue to spiral downward as low life black culture becomes more and more common place in Hollywood and America. What would Blacks do without violence and 4 letter words??? – their so-called “respect”, violence, obsession with drug and “gangsta”culture-all of which has done nothing but brought America down. Blacks in America represent the very worst of our society, not the best. MLK must be weeping in his grave to see the direction, and how far into the gutter Blacks of today have fallen-given all the sacrifices an opportunities he and other great black leaders gave black people that came after him.
I wish I could find even one point of contention in your observation. But there aren’t any.
Semper Fi, Bro.
Will.Smith will never have .01% of the calss Denzel shows every day
Any other person would have been arrested on the spot. Why does Will Smith get a pass?
Race card
Drugs are being transported from communist China over the border with Mexico. Biden has allowed our country to fall into decline. Communist China also controls Hollywood and these freaks. We need adults not immature people like this to lead. This is trash.
They are giving out Oscars for a movie about a relative of famous tennis players, not even the players themselves? No wonder I don’t go to the movies anymore. They are not worth watching. And now we have black on black crime at an awards ceremony too. If I had wanted to see that, I could have turned on the news, except that would have been the most exciting thing that has happened at any of those stupid award shows in years. Like most Americans, I purposely missed the Oscars, like I miss all the award shows, where narcissistic actors get told how wonderful they are by other actors, after getting paid enormous amounts of money to pretend to be someone else. FJB
The corruption and 2 tier justice system must be DESTROYED! LAPD doesn’t need a police report! LAPD has everything on camera and can prosecute the incident themselves! California State Attorney’s should be FIRED along with that districts Police Captain! This was disgusting for young children to see.
If I’m Chris Rock I’m telling the academy that if they don’t rescind Smith’s award, I’m filing charges.
One day in jail isn’t going to bother this POS, but losing an Oscar will.