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© Provided by US Weekly Amy Schumer: People 'Made Fun of' Me for Calling Oscars Slap 'Traumatizing' Dealing with her own backlash. Amy Schumer has been candid about her honest reaction to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars, but some haven’t appreciated it.
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Read article “It was so upsetting,” the 94th annual Academy Awards cohost, 40, told Howard Stern on Wednesday, April 13, about the onstage incident — during which Smith, 53, smacked Rock, 57, across the face for making fun of Jada Pinkett Smith.
“People made fun of me for saying that it was traumatizing, but I don’t think it was traumatizing for me,” the Life & Beth star elaborated. “I think it was traumatizing for all of us.”
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Schumer — who cohosted the Oscars on March 27 with Wanda Sykes and Regina Hall — tweeted on March 30 that she was “still triggered and traumatized” by the violence inflicted on the Everybody Hates Chris alum by the King Richard star. (After slapping Rock for the comedian’s joke about Pinkett Smith’s shaved head — the Red Table Talk host has alopecia — Smith yelled at the South Carolina native, twice, to “keep my wife’s name out your f—king mouth.”)
The Inside Amy Schumer alum told Stern, 68, about how the altercation overshadowed Questlove‘s win for Best Documentary Feature for Summer of Soul, which Rock was presenting at the time. “Chris Rock’s my good friend. Questlove is one of my best friends. We’re close. To see that happen, to see your friend get hit” was difficult for her to witness, she explained.
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© Provided by US Weekly Amy Schumer: People 'Made Fun of' Me for Calling Oscars Slap 'Traumatizing' Gallery: Nick Viall: Will Smith Oscars Slap Was 'More Dramatic' Than 'The Bachelor' (US Weekly)
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The slap heard ‘round the world. Will Smith stunned the star-studded audience — and everyone watching at home — when he took to the stage and smacked Chris Rock across the face after the comedian made a “joke” about Jada Pinkett Smith’s hair loss at the 2022 Oscars on Sunday, March 27.
“Jada, I love you,” the comedian said from the stage, quipping, “G.I. Jane 2, can’t wait to see it,” referring to the actress’ buzzed head, as G.I. Jane star Demi Moore wore a similar style. (Pinkett Smith, 50, has often been open about losing her hair due to alopecia.)
As the camera cut to the Smiths, the King Richard star, 53 — who later won the Oscar for best actor — seemed to smile at Rock’s joke, while Pinkett Smith intensely rolled her eyes. Though it initially seemed that Smith was OK with the quip, he quickly walked onstage and slapped the Longest Yard actor, 57, across the face. Once he returned to his seat, he yelled, “Keep my wife’s name out of your f–king mouth.”
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“Wow. Will Smith just smacked the s–t outta me,” Rock said to the audience before returning to handing out the award for best documentary.
For his part, the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air alum later referenced — and apologized for — the altercation in his speech when accepting his Oscar for King Richard.
“Oh, man. Richard Williams was a fierce defender of his family,” Smith said, relating his behavior to that of Serena and Venus Williams’ father, the role he played in the film. “I’m being called on in my life to love people and to protect people and to be a river to my people. I know to do what we do, you got to be able to take abuse. You got to be able to have people talk crazy about you. In this business you got to be able to have people disrespecting you. And you got to smile, you got to pretend like that’s OK.”
The 7 Pounds actor also apologized to several people for his behavior — though not explicitly to Rock.
“I want to apologize to the academy. I want to apologize to all my fellow nominees,” he added. “Art imitates life: I look like the crazy father. Just like they said about Richard Williams. But love will make you do crazy things.”
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Stars who were both in attendance and watching at home had a lot to say about the drama — from Rock’s “joke” to Smith’s slap. Scroll below to see how celebrities reacted to the incident:
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Nick Viall
When asked how the altercation compared to Bachelor Nation drama, the “Viall Files” podcast host told Us that the Oscars moment was “way more dramatic” than the reality dating show. “He walked up on stage and slapped him,” Viall said at the 30th annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party on Sunday. “I think most people just wondered if it was like a bit or a joke, if it was fake. I think pretty quickly we realized it was serious.”
The ABC personality noted that the situation was “unfortunate” on several levels. “Chris Rock is there to be a comedian. He tells jokes, obviously, you know, there’s always going to be some at the expense of people. … Everyone has a right to feel though how they feel, and we have our hurt feelings, but how we handle our hurt feelings matters,” Viall told Us. “I don’t know if Will handled it the best. But his performance [in King Richard] was amazing. Congrats to him for winning the Oscar, certainly well-deserved in his performance. It just — I feel like it took away from his moment. I feel like more people are going to be talking about that than his award. And that’s unfortunate for everyone.”
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Leslie Odom Jr.
The Hamilton star weighed in on the incident at the Vanity Fair afterparty, noting, “This business can sometimes feel like walking around with your skin ripped off, you know? It’s a very vulnerable thing. And so I think we saw two artists with their hearts open. It’s a vulnerable moment, sometimes it’s messy but it’s always beautiful when it’s the truth.”
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Jimmy Kimmel
“I know the big story is the slap, but congratulations to @amyschumer @iamwandasykes & Regina Hall who were very funny,” the comedian, who previously hosted the Oscars in 2017 and 2018, tweeted on Sunday. “I hope that isn’t overshadowed by the unpleasantness #Oscars.”
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David Spade
“A GI Jane joke???” Spade tweeted of his Grown Ups costar’s quip.
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Paul Scheer
The Black Monday star wrote via Twitter, “Hopefully some eye witnesses will step forward,” as the LAPD noted in a statement that they didn’t “have any details about the incident.”
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Jaden Smith
“And That’s How We Do It,” Will and Jada’s son tweeted in response.
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Tiffany Haddish
“I think Chris was messy. As a woman who had a husb, I wish my husb wld have stood up 4 me the way (Will) stood up for (Jada),” the Girls’ Trip star told the Los Angeles Times. “That’s what every woman wants, right? She was hurt. And he protected his wife. And that’s what a man is supposed to do.”
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Trevor Noah: Academy Should've 'Consulted' Chris About Will's PunishmentWhile the comedian, 38, initially told his talk show audience on Monday, April 12, that he first thought that the consequences the Academy imposed on Smith, 53, were “ridiculous” — the actor has been banned from attending the Oscars for 10 years — he quickly came to the conclusion that the punishment was actually a “favor” to the Academy Award winner.
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Amy Schumer
“I’ve been getting out of that Spider-Man costume. Did I miss anything?” the Life and Beth star joked after Will’s win. “There’s, like, a different vibe in here.”
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Judd Apatow
The director tweeted multiple times about the moment and strongly condemned the violence. “Alert – @amyschumer do not go to the @VanityFair party. Will Smith wants to talk to you about the monologue. Chris— I think you should take him for all his King Richard, I mean, Hitch money. #Oscars.” He later referenced Questlove, writing, “@questlove who deserved his moment without that toxic nonsense before him. I’m glad Chris is ok. Will learned nothing training for Ali. Will Smith’s punches are as soft as his raps. #Oscars.”
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Conan O’Brien
“Just saw the Will Smith slap. Anyone have a late night show I can borrow just for tomorrow?” the former late-night host joked via Twitter.
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Billy Eichner
“I’m getting under my couch,” the Billy on the Street host tweeted in response to the surprising moment.
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Cher
“WENT OUT OF RM & MISSED REASON FOR WILL’S PUNCH..JUST SAW IT, BUT STILL NOT SURE WHY,” Cher, always one to tweet her mind, wrote.
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Sophia Bush
“Violence isn’t ok. Assault is never the answer,” the One Tree Hill alum shared on Twitter. “Also? This is the 2nd time that Chris has made fun of Jada on the #Oscars stage, & tonight he went after her alopecia. Punching down at someone’s auto-immune disease is wrong. Doing so on purpose is cruel. They both need a breather.”
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Shanola Hampton
“There is NEVER a justification for VIOLENCE! Never, ever, ever!!” the Shameless star tweeted.
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The Chainsmokers
“Will smith just fully sent it and punched Chris rock in the face on the Oscar’s,” Alex Pall and Drew Taggart tweeted from The Chainsmokers’ account.
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Mirai Nagasu
“Hahaha thank you Japanese television,” the Olympic medalist tweeted, enjoying the fact that the incident — with both actors’ remarks — aired in full.
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Richard Marx
The singer-songwriter appeared to side with Rock, tweeting, “I like Oscar winners who don’t slap comedians across the face over a joke.”
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Schumer noted that the “trauma” of watching Smith slap Rock was also so hard because the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air alum is someone “who I’ve loved — who we’ve loved forever … I don’t remember a time I didn’t think, ‘I love that guy,’” she said, reasoning that the Ali actor “must have been in so much pain” to hit the Saturday Night Live alum.
“It was upsetting for so many reasons and it was upsetting to everyone. [To] everyone at home who didn’t even see what I saw,” she told the radio host. “It was shocking, and it was a bummer.”
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Read article Smith — who won the best actor Oscar later that evening for his performance as Richard Williams in King Richard — is currently experiencing intense fallout after the altercation.
The Pursuit of Happyness actor publicly apologized to Rock — as well as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, all audience members, viewers and the producers of the show — one day after the ceremony, calling his behavior “unacceptable and inexcusable.”
Four days later, Smith resigned from the Academy. The board declared on Friday, April 8, that the “Miami” rapper is banned from the Oscars and all related Academy events for 10 years.
“I accept and respect the Academy’s decision,” the 7 Pounds actor told Page Six in a statement at the time.
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Read article For his part, Rock, who declined to file a police report about the slap, has alluded to the incident in several of his standup routines since.
According to an eyewitness, the Longest Yard star told a heckler “no” when they yelled, “F—k Will Smith” during Rock’s March 31 set in Boston. Two days later, an audience member revealed that the comedian joked that he “had an interesting week” during his routine in New Jersey.
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