Chris Rock hasn’t officially spoken on Will Smith’s slap.
He has told the audience he will get to it one day, but not today. There has been some talk that whenever he does speak on it he is going to get paid for it.
If you were at a secret show held by Dave Chappelle you would have heard Rock speak on the slap and clown Will Smith.
Rock took a stool near Chappelle and remained there for the rest of the performance. It was two of the biggest comedians joking about the headline-making attacks they’d recently experienced — all unfolding in a 70-seat annex of The Comedy Store. As such, the moment felt historic.
“At least you got smacked by someone of repute!” Chappelle joked to Rock. “I got smacked by a homeless guy with leaves in his hair.”
Rock laughed and responded, “I got smacked by the softest n—a that ever rapped.”
Later, Chappelle described convincing venue security to allow him to enter the room where his alleged assailant, 23-year-old Isaiah Lee, was being held. “I needed to talk to him,” Chappelle said. He asked Lee what possibly could have prompted his attack, to which Lee — who Chappelle said appeared to him to be mentally ill — offered a story about his grandmother from Brooklyn, who had been forced out of her neighborhood by gentrification. The attack was meant to draw attention to her plight, Chappelle recounted.
Meanwhile, Will Smith is in therapy trying to get the hell away from Jada Pinkett.
Will Smith has sought help in the wake of his infamous slap of Chris Rock at the Academy Awards.
Smith, 53, ‘has been going to therapy after the Oscars incident,’ a source told Entertainment Tonight Thursday of the actor, who made international headlines for his outburst toward the 57-year-old comedian at the March 27 event at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California.
The Oscars exchange between Smith and Rock took place after Rock made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head, saying, ‘Jada, I love you, G.I. Jane 2, can’t wait to see it,’ in reference to the 1997 movie which featured Demi Moore with a shaved head. (Pinkett Smith, 50, has diagnosed with alopecia, which causes hair loss.)
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