Oscars 2022: Will Smith slaps Chris Rock after latter’s joke on his wife Jada Pinkett

With Oscars 2022 taking place today, fans have been laying ir eyes on award ceremony to catch a glimpse of ir favourite stars being houred for ir craft. With several entries in respective categories, it will be quite thrilling to watch bottleneck competition and see who takes trophy home. Amid excitement, a video of Will Smith hitting Chris Rock has been making rounds on internet leaving fans shocked.

Chris Rock was slapped hard by Will Smith on st after former joked about Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith to play titular in GI Jane 2. After Rock joked about his wife, Smith got on st at Dolby atre and hit Rock in face leaving all spectators and fans in a complete state of shock.       

Will Smith hits comedian Chris Rock in face at Oscars 2022 

Though audio of video is cut and censored for several seconds, captions indicated that King Richard star said, “keep my wife’s name out of your… mouth.” comedian looked shocked before handing over best documentary prize, which was reason he was on st.

For unkwn, Rock’s joke referred to popular 1997 film GI Jane, in which actor Demi Moore played titular role with a buzzcut. Chris poked fun and asked Jada Pinkett Smith to play titular role, considering her baldness which is due to a disease. She had previously spoken about having a hair loss condition, alopecia.

“I did t kw that this year would be most exciting Oscar ever,” Sean “Diddy” Combs said after. “Will and Chris we’re gonna solve that like family at goal party right w we’re moving on with love.”

entire incident has left Twitter army quite shocked who were still trying to figure out what really happened. One of users wrote, “will smith after winning an oscar right after he smacked Chris rock.” Ar user wrote, “Why are folks disappointed in Will Smith? I thought it was “Protect Black Women”????????” A third user chimed in and wrote, “One fan chimed in, “I’m sitting right here and I thought that was scripted. that was t scripted oh my god what’s story will, and Chris?!!! #Oscars.”    

Moments after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock over 'GI Jane' remark, actor issued an apology for his aggressive behaviour on st during his speech. Will Smith said, "I'm being called on in my life to love people and to protect people and to be a river to my people... 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 pretend like that's okay." He furr mentioned a brief chat with Denzel Washington, who told him to be careful at his highest moment as "that's when devil comes for you."

After incident, LAPD issued a statement and revealed that “individuals involved has declined to file a police report.” LAPD has commented on Will Smith striking Chris Rock on st at Academy Awards, saying “ individual involved has declined to file a police report.”

IM: AP