Tyler Perry has spoken on the Will Smith-Chris Rock Oscars slap and according to him, Will was devastated immediately after the Oscars slap.
If Will Smith was devastated after the slap then what happened to the receiver of the slap, Chris Rock? Yahoo Entertainment got more;
Tyler Perry says Will Smith “was devastated” in the moments after he slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars.
The filmmaker was one of the ones rallying around Smith in the wake of the shocking moment, stemming from a G.I. Jane joke Rock made at Jada Pinkett Smith’s expense, reportedly unaware she has alopecia. Perry also defended his own actions, saying he wasn’t “comforting” Smith but “de-escalating” the situation.
“There’s a difference between comforting and de-escalating, that’s number one,” Perry told Gayle King Monday at the Tribeca Film Festival via People magazine. “And I left early to get to Chris to make sure he was OK. Being friends with both of them has been very difficult.”
Perry said he was “there close up” on March 27 — as he was paying tribute to Sidney Poiter during the in memoriam segment — and what Smith did “was wrong in no uncertain terms. I made sure I said that to Will.”
Perry said when he and Denzel Washington “walked over to” Smith, “he was devastated. He couldn’t believe what happened. I’m looking at this man in his eyes going, ‘What are you doing? This is your night.’ And to get all the way to this moment, winning an Oscar, that was one of the crowning moments of his career that he wanted so desperately, and to have something like that happen…”
Perry said he thinks Smith, who has apologized publicly to Rock and was banned from the Oscars for 10 years, “is very much in reflection of trying to figure out what happened.”
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