Zack Sharf Digital News Director Leslie Jones told People magazine while promoting her new memoir, “Leslie F*cking Jones,” that her longtime friend Chris Rock went to counseling after Will Smith slapped him at the 2022 Academy Awards.
Rock wrote the foreword to Jones’ new book. “That shit was humiliating. It really affected him,” Jones said. “People need to understand his daughters, his parents, saw that.
He had to go to counseling with his daughters.” Variety has reached out to Rock’s representative for comment. Jones added that the Oscars slap “infuriated” her, adding, “You don’t know that I was going to jump in my car and roll up there.
I was so fucking mad on so many levels… Chris Rock did a fucking joke. I know Will, too… I was like, you couldn’t handle that shit afterwards?
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