Well sometimes you just gotta be the better person, right? Oscars co-host Wanda Sykes has said that Chris Rock apologized to her after he was slapped by Will Smith on stage. However, the actress said she was “still traumatized” and felt disappointed by the way the show had handled the “sickening” incident.
The Oscars was thrown into chaos when Smith, 53, stormed the stage and slapped Rock in front of the star-studded audience, after the comic made a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith and her hair loss.
Wanda Sykes Says She Got An Apology From Chris Rock Following The Oscars Slap
Appearing on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, Sykes said Rock had approached her to apologize about the incident because he knew it would overshadow her plaudits for presenting alongside Amy Schumer and Regina Hall.
Speaking to the host, she said: “I just felt so awful for my friend Chris. It was sickening, absolutely sickening. I physically felt ill and I’m still a little traumatized by it. And for them to let him stay in that room and enjoy the rest of the show and accept his award, I was like, ‘How gross is this? This is just the wrong message.’ You assault somebody, you get escorted out the building and that’s it. But for them to let him continue, I thought was gross.”
Right after the incident, Academy leaders asked Smith to leave by way of his publicist, but he refused, it has said. Packer was told Smith was about to be physically removed, and he went to Academy leaders on site and told them Rock didn’t want that to happen.
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