“It’s a season for healing and I’m here for it,” she wrote for any Instagram post in reference to her illness. No other words accompanied this sentence and the comments of the message were disabled. This post follows Will Smith’s public apology to Chris Rock and the Oscar audience for his outburst of violence.
It’s a Chris Rock joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head, suffering from alopecia – a disease causing significant hair loss, which she revealed to be suffering from a few years ago – which had triggered the scandal. Will Smith suddenly took the stage and slapped Chris Rock under the dumbfounded eyes of celebrities and viewers. The 53-year-old actor yelled at her, “Leave my wife’s name out of your fucking mouth!” once back in his chair.
Will Smith apologized
“I would like to publicly apologize to you, Chris. What I did was inappropriate and I was wrong,” Will Smith wrote on his Instagram account on Monday.
“My behavior last night at the Oscars was unacceptable and inexcusable. Jokes at my expense are part of the job, but a joke about Jada’s health issue was too much for me and I reacted emotionally,” he explained, explicitly rejecting “any violence.”
The Academy of Oscars had recently announced the opening of an internal investigation into this incident, stressing that it condemned “the actions of Mr. Smith during the show last night”.