Amy Schumer Defends Calling Will Smith-Chris Rock Oscars 2022 Slap 'Traumatizing': 'It Was So Upsetting'

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Amy Schumer is opening up about the Will Smith-Chris Rock slap incident. The 2022 Oscars co-host sat down for an interview on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show. Click inside to read more… “It was a good show and then the slap happened,” she said. “I had no thoughts of like how it affected me or my performance or anything.

It was just upsetting as a person.” “It was so upsetting. People made fun of me for saying that it was traumatizing, but I don’t think it was traumatizing for me.

I think it was traumatizing for all of us,” she went on to say. “I don’t remember a time I didn’t think, ‘I love that guy,’” she added of Will Smith. “It was upsetting for so many reasons and it was upsetting to everyone…it was shocking, and it was a bummer.” “The reason why Chris Rock could stand there, and get hit in the face, and then stay up there with composure and give his friend [Questlove] an Oscar is because he’s a comedian.

Everything that you’re afraid of happens to you while you’re on stage, and then you’re just desensitized, so you’re not shocked by anything,” she continued.