Chris Rock’s mum says Will Smith ‘slapped all of us’ as she slams Oscars ordeal

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Chris Rock’s mum has condemned Will Smith over the Oscars slap (Image: Getty / Reuters)

Chris Rock’s mum has slammed Will Smith over final month’s Oscars incident, stating that he ‘slapped’ the entire household on stage.

The King Richard actor stormed the stage on the ceremony and hit the comic, over a joke he made concerning Jada Pinkett Smith’s hair.

He issued an apology shortly after, and has since been banned from attending the bash for a decade.

Throughout a brand new interview on South Carolina station WIS-TV, Rose Rock defined that she initially believed that the incident was ‘staged’ – however realised it was actual when Will yelled obscenities from the group, telling Chris to ‘hold my spouse’s identify out of your f**king mouth’.

‘When he slapped Chris, he slapped all of us. He actually slapped me,’ she vowed. ‘As a result of whenever you damage my baby, you damage me.’

The All people Hates Chris star was on stage to current an award to Questlove for greatest documentary function when issues took a flip.

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Chris was left visibly shocked by the incident (Image: Rex)

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Will has since been banned from the Oscars for a decade (Image: Getty)

‘Nobody heard his [Questlove’s] speech,’ Rose added. ‘Nobody was capable of simply be within the second as a result of everybody was sitting there like, “What simply occurred?”’

Will has stored a low profile ever since, whereas Chris has continued his comedy tour with a quip about what occurred – however has not addressed it any additional.

DJ Jazzy Jeff later defended his Recent Prince co-star, suggesting that it was a ‘lapse’ in judgement.

‘Don’t get it twisted that it was one thing he was happy with,’ he stated at his Closed Classes Legend Dialog occasion. 

‘It was a lapse in judgment, you already know?

‘I believe the factor that I’ve realised is I don’t know too many individuals that has had the least quantity of lapse of judgment than him. 

‘I can identify 50 instances that he ought to’ve smacked the s**t out of someone and he didn’t.

‘So for him to have a lapse in judgment, he’s human. And I believe plenty of the criticism comes from the individuals who don’t suppose individuals like which might be human.’

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