Jim Carrey has been broadly criticised on social media after a video of him kissing Alicia Silverstone on the 1997 MTV Film Awards has re-emerged.
After the actor weighed in on the Will Smith and Chris Rock drama on the 2022 Oscars, describing it as ‘sickening’, many took purpose at his personal previous behaviour.
Alicia, who was 20 on the time, offered Carrey with an award for his movie The Cable Man.
Jim, who was 35, walked up on stage earlier than kissing Alicia and taking the award.
On the identical ceremony, after he was introduced because the winner of ‘finest kiss’, Carrey tried to kiss Smith.
Many have taken purpose at Carrey, with one saying: ‘Says the man who sexually assaulted alicia silverstone on stage.’
‘Alicia silverstone was 19 and jim carrey was 35. don’t discuss a state of affairs on so-called assault about will once you sexually assaulted alicia. have a look at her response after he did it, she appears SO disgusted!,’ one other stated.
Another added: ‘Jim Carrey is daring…didnt he kiss Alicia Silverstone on stage with out consent and she or he stated she felt humiliated?’
‘Jim Carrey… the man who kissed a 19 yr previous Alicia Silverstone with out her consent… that Jim Carrey?’ one other stated.
The criticism comes after the actor, who not too long ago stated he plans to retire, weighed in on Smith hitting comic Rock after a joke the comic made concerning the King Richard star’s spouse Jada Pinkett Smith.
Smith, who acquired a standing ovation when he gained finest actor, has since apologised.
‘I used to be sickened, I used to be sickened by the standing ovation,’ Carrey, 60, instructed CBS’ This Morning.
‘I felt like Hollywood is simply spineless en masse and it simply actually felt like this can be a actually clear indication that we’re not the cool membership anymore.’
He added that Smith ‘ought to have been’ arrested after hitting Rock on stage following a joke about his spouse however the comic declined to file fees.
Carrey continued: ‘He didn’t need the trouble. I’d have introduced this morning that I used to be suing Will for 200 million dollars as a result of that video goes to be there ceaselessly, it’s going to be ubiquitous. That insult goes to final a really very long time.
‘If you wish to yell from the viewers and disapprove or present disapproval or say one thing on Twitter, no matter. You should not have the best to stroll up on stage and smack someone within the face as a result of they stated phrases.’
When the host urged the incident ‘escalated’, Carrey added: ‘It didn’t escalate, it got here out of nowhere as a result of Will has one thing happening inside him that’s pissed off.
‘I want him the most effective, I actually do. I don’t have something towards Will Smith, he’s completed nice issues. However that was not a very good second.’
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