THE OSCARS SLAP
At the 94th Academy Awards on March 27, presenter Chris Rock made a G.I. Jane joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s baldness, though she has alopecia. Her husband Will Smith, who won Best Actor for King Richard, walked onstage and slapped Rock across the face. “Keep my wife’s name out of your f--king mouth,” he then yelled from his seat.
In the aftermath, Rock addressed the incident. “Did that s--t hurt? God damn right,” he said. “The motherf--ker hit me over a bulls--t joke.” Smith, who received a decade-long ban from the Academy, uploaded a video in July