Will Smith SLAPS Chris Rock on stage after he jokes about his wife Jada on Oscars 2022

The 94th Academy Awards took place on 27th March on Sunday and the internet has blown up with the incident between Chris Rock and Will Smith. The Oscars audience was left stunned when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on stage after he made a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett.

Chris Rock poked fun at Jada after he made a GI Jane joke about the actress which was referring to her shaved head. For the unversed Jada suffers from alopecia and she was clearly not having it at Chris Rock’s joke as she rolled her eyes at him. After Chris made his joke, Will walked on stage and slapped Rock leaving him stumped.

Then he came back to his seat and he said, “Keep my wife’s name out of your f*****g mouth.” Chris then told him, “Will Smith just smacked the shit out of me. It was a G.I. Jane joke. That was the greatest night in the history of television.”

the uncensored exchange between will smith and chris rock at the oscars, 2022 #oscars pic.twitter.com/rYQ6h1fWgx

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Later, Will won the award for Best Actor and he broke down during his speech, “I want to apologize to the Academy. I want to apologize to all my fellow nominees. This is a beautiful moment and I’m not crying for winning an award. It’s not about winning an award for me. It’s about being able to shine a light on all of the people. Art imitates life. I look like the crazy father, just like they said about Richard Williams. Love will make you do crazy things.”

He then added, “I’m being called on in my life to love people and to protect people and to be a river to my people. I know to do what we do, you got to be able to take abuse. You got to be able to have people talk crazy about you. In this business you got to be able to have people disrespecting you. And you got to smile and you got to pretend like that’s okay.”

Will Smith’s Oscar acceptance speech about protecting people and loving people is worth the listen. pic.twitter.com/V9JAGknctQ

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