An excerpt from Jada Pinkett Smith’s memoir ‘Worthy’ details her experience at the Oscars in 2022 when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock.
Jada Pinkett Smith is baring it all in her upcoming memoir, Worthy.
An excerpt published by People shows Pinkett Smith detailing her exact experience and thought process as she witnessed Will Smith slap Chris Rock at the Oscars in 2022.
The actress wrote that, prior to the incident, her “stomach clenched” when she saw Rock listed as one of the presenters of the evening. “He had been known to take swipes at me — and from the Oscar stage, no less. That had been in 2016, six years earlier, during what became known as #OscarsSoWhite,” she recalled.
Though she tried to be “optimistic,” her fears came true: Rock spotted her in the audience while on-stage and improvised a joke about her alopecia.
“It’s not until Will yells from his seat back up at Chris to ‘keep my wife’s name out your f—in’ mouth,’ and then repeats it, that I perceive the gravity of the situation, and that, no, it had not been a skit,” Pinkett Smith wrote in her memoir.
