She was probably too busy whipping her hair. Willow Smith has opened up about her father’s infamous Oscars slap and says that she hasn’t been affected by it at all. Here’s what she has to say.
In an interview with Billboard, the 21-year-old shared how the media fallout following the incident “didn’t rock me as much as my own internal demons. I see my whole family as being human, and I love and accept them for all their humanness,” she told the publication.
Willow Smith Says She’s Unaffected By Her Father Will Smith’s Chris Rock Slap
“Because of the position that we’re in, our humanness sometimes isn’t accepted, and we’re expected to act in a way that isn’t conducive to a healthy human life and isn’t conducive to being honest.”
Will Smith went on to win the best actor award for his role in King Richard but was later banned from attending the awards for 10 years. Last month the Aladdin actor addressed the incident for the first time in a video on Instagram.
In the clip, he apologized to Rock, “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.”
The 53-year-old also apologized to his family and said his wife Jada did not influence his actions. The actor also apologizes to Chris Rock’s mother, adding: “I saw an interview that his mother did. 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.
“So I want to apologize to Chris’s mother; I want to apologize to Chris’s family, specifically Tony Rock [Chris’s younger brother]. We had a great relationship. Tony Rock was my man. This is probably irreparable.”
“And I’m not going to try and unpack all of that right now, but I can say to all of you there is no part of me that thinks that was the right way to behave in that moment. There’s no part of me that thinks that’s the optimal way to handle a feeling of disrespect or insults.”
The incident at the Oscars resulted in widespread criticism of Smith. So far Chris Rock himself has not made any comments about the matter, however, he did say that he was hesitant to talk about the slap unless the price were right, if you know what we mean.
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