Composite image of Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith and Chris rock at the 94th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, California on March 27, 2022.
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Composite image of Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith and Chris rock at the 94th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, California on March 27, 2022.
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Jada Pinkett Smith appeared on Tuesday to address the incident at Sunday night’s Academy Awards that rocked the world stage and make heated debates about possibleism, black hair, and toxic masculinity.
“This is a season for healing,” the message, dotted on a pale pink background, reads. “I’m here for it.”
This is the first public statement by the popular “Red Table Talk” actress and host since her husband, Oscar-winning actor Will Smith, slapped Chris Rock over the host’s joke. The awards show did about Pinkett Smith’s hair on Sunday night. .
“Jada, I love you. GI Jane 2, can’t wait to see you,” Rock said as he prepared to present the award for Best Documentary Feature, prompting Smith coldly across the stage and smacking the comedian in the face.
Moment – from one otherwise it’s insignificant awards show – quickly went viral, stunning viewers with the unusually aggressive publicity between two of Hollywood’s biggest stars.
Smith has since then sorryboth went directly to the Academy and the Rock, noting that listening to Rock sheds light on Pinkett Smith’s very public struggles with alopecia have pushed him over the edge.
“Jokes at my expense are part of the job, but a joke about Jada’s health was too much for me and I reacted emotionally,” Smith wrote.
Pinkett Smith has publicly shared her struggle with alopecia areata – an autoimmune disorder that causes sudden, unpredictable hair loss in sufferers – and late last year she started shaved his head to embrace his involuntary hair loss.
Her Tuesday message, which was broadcast to around 11.7 million followers on Instagram, was featured by the “Girls Trip” star, who regularly posts simple uplifting messages to her timeline. her time.
While Pinkett Smith has not spoken publicly about the slap, or the joke that led to it, social media users have weighed in, with many divided over which side – Rock, Smith, or both – was wrong.
But in a Facebook hair loss advocacy group for Black women, there was less debate.
“Ok …. enough about Smiths and the Rocks,” one woman wrote. “Let’s get back to supporting and uplifting each other. Our struggles are real, but we shine like diamonds.”
