Why Will Smith Smacked Chris Rock for His Jada Pinkett-Smith Oscars Joke

The Oscars had a truly mind-boggling moment onstage tonight, with Will Smith appearing to slap Chris Rock after the comedian made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith looking like “G.I. Jane 2” due to her shaven head. Pinkett Smith has spoken openly about having alopecia, a hair-loss condition.

The joke didn’t exactly land. Although he appeared first to laugh, Smith stormed up onto the stage and smacked Rock across the face before walking back to his seat. From there, he yelled at Rock, “Keep my wife’s name out of your fucking mouth!” While this retort was muted during the U.S. broadcast, other international broadcasts revealed what was said live.

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Pinkett Smith has opened up about having alopecia on her Instagram. “Look at this line right here,” Pinkett Smith said in a video she shared in December, pointing to her scalp. “Now this is going to be a little bit more difficult for me to hide, so I thought I’d just share it so y’all not asking any questions—but you know, mama’s going to put some rhinestones in there, and I’m going to make me a little crown.”

In her caption, she wrote, “Mama’s gonna have to take it down to the scalp so nobody thinks she got brain surgery or something? Me and this alopecia are going to be friends … period!?”

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This is not the first time that Rock has joked about Pinkett Smith at the Oscars. In 2016, Rock was hosting the show and took a jab at Pinkett Smith in his opening monologue. “Jada says she’s not coming. Protesting. I’m like, ‘Ain’t she on a TV show?’” he said, referring to Pinkett-Smith’s decision to boycott the ceremony due to the lack of diversity in nominees, via The Hollywood Reporter. “Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna’s panties. I wasn’t invited! Oh, that’s not an invitation I would turn down!”

Pinkett Smith responded to that joke to paparazzi while at the airport. “Hey, look, it comes with the territory. We gotta keep it moving,” she said. “We got a lot of stuff we gotta handle, a lot of stuff going on in our world right now. We gotta keep it moving.”

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