First time after Smith smacked Rock at the 2022 Academy Awards, actor Will Smith openly embraced comedian Chris Rock on camera.
On March 27, Smith attacked Rock when a joke was made about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, who has alopecia and has a tightly shaven head. Smith said that he “reacted emotionally” and that the joke was “too much for me to handle” at the moment.
Smith has not spoken more as of yet, but on Friday he apologized to Rock in a YouTube video and promised to be available anytime he was ready to chat.
“I’ve reached out to Chris and the message that came back is that he’s not ready to talk, and when he is he will reach out,” Smith said. “So I will say to you, Chris, I apologize to you. My behavior was unacceptable, and I’m here whenever you’re ready to talk.”
Rock’s mother, Rose Rock, who earlier this year spoke to WIS about the incident and how it affected her family, was later apologized to by Smith.
“[Will] started using obscenities,” she said. “When he slapped Chris, he slapped all of us. He really slapped me.”
Rose Rock added that she felt “bad” because she believed Will never truly apologized to her son.
“His people wrote up a piece saying I apologize to Chris Rock, but you see something like that is personal, you reach out,” she said.
Smith said he saw Rose Rock’s interview.
“That’s one of the things about that moment I didn’t realize, I wasn’t thinking, but how many people got hurt in that moment,” he said. “So I want to apologize to Chris’s mother; I want to apologize to Chris’s family. This is probably irreparable.”
Smith, who resigned from the Academy and was banned from attending ceremonies for 10 years, offered a direct apology to Chris Rock.
“I was out of line and I was wrong. I am embarrassed and my actions were not indicative of the man I want to be. There is no place for violence in a world of love and kindness,” Smith said in the video.
“I spent the last three months replaying and understanding the complexities and nuances of what happened. I’m not gonna try to unpack all of that right now, but I can say to you, there was no part of me that thought that was the right way to behave in that moment.”
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