These two things are nothing alike.
Slapping someone with millions watching and s*xually assaulting someone in private are two different things. This is an apples and oranges situation. Terry Crews would have been justified in pummeling the man who violated him.
Chris Rock also would have been justified in retaliating against Smith, but Rock knew the camera was rolling, so he had to keep his cool.
I highly doubt if Smith had slapped Rock in private, he would have just turned the other cheek.
Here is Crews trying to shoehorn his situation with Rock and Smith’s altercation.
“It wasn’t until I was Chris Rock literally in that moment — when I was assaulted by agent Adam Venit — and I chose to be in control. I chose to hold everything together. It could have descended into chaos,” he said of the 2016 incident. “It would’ve been the end of me.”
He said, “The time that I was Chris was the time that saved my life.”
Crews said Rock is a hero for how he handled Smith’s outburst — first by rushing to the stage and slapping him and then cursing him out from his seat. A stunned Rock said, “Will Smith just smacked the s*** out of me,” and then calmly resumed presenting.
“When I look back, by what Chris did, by just deciding to hold everything together, it … in a lot of ways saved Hollywood. Because if there would’ve been a brawl on that stage, I don’t know if Hollywood would’ve ever gotten any respect again, you know? It’s hard to even imagine what would’ve happened.”
Crews said the “true definition of toughness was what Chris did in taking a punch and then holding everything together… I think it was a miracle what Chris did. I really do. I couldn’t believe his poise in that moment. I thought, holy cow, we owe him a lot. I think every performer owes him so much because it just really saved Hollywood in that moment.”
I disagree with Crews, but what do you think?
Flip the pages for all the times Jada has embarrassed Will.
