Will Smith may have had a good reason to respond so strongly, even though he and Jada Pinkett-Smith were not together at the time of the famous Oscar slap.
Wednesday, Jada revealed some shocking news: she and Will are no longer dating. But many people also didn’t know that Chris Rock shot Jada. Some people said that Rock asked the “Girl’s Trip” star out on a date when they heard that she and Will were getting a divorce.
“This guy called me and said, ‘I’d love to take you out.'” ‘What do you mean?’ I asked. He asked, “Aren’t you and Will splitting up?” I said, “No.” Chris, those stories aren’t true. He was shocked. “He apologized a lot, and that was the end of it,” Jada said.
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It’s not clear if Will and Rock ever talked about Rock’s date offer, but Will didn’t like it when Rock made jokes about Jada. Remember that Will yelled, “Keep my wife’s name out of your f*****g mouth!” after he stormed the Oscar stage, attacked Rock, and then went back to his place. Rock had just made a joke about Jada having baldness. Jada says she thought the moment was a joke at the time.
“I didn’t even know it wasn’t a skit until Will began to walk back to his chair. “That night, I was just as lost as everyone else in that room,” she said.
In any case, she hopes that Rock and her husband can finally move on and deal with things.