Chris Rock opened up about being bullied and letting people 'walk all over' him in recent podcast

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Chris Rock opened up about his past experiences being bullied and how it led him to let people 'walk all over' him in a podcast earlier this year.The 57-year-old comic, who was slapped by Will Smith after making a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith's hair at Sunday's Oscars, appeared on the Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade podcast January 12, where he recounted his past experiences and how it impacted him as an adult.Rock said he had been 'bullied ridiculously' as a child, adding, 'Half of the bullying was because I was just a little guy.

Then I got bused to school and the bullying was because I was [a] little guy and I was Black. I was getting double bullied.' The latest:Chris Rock, 57, opened up about his past experiences being bullied and how it led him to let people 'walk all over' him in a podcast earlier this year.

The comic was seen at Sunday's Oscars at theDolby Theatre, where Will Smith, 53, infamously slapped himRock recalled an incident in which he fought back against one of his tormentors.'I went home, I put a brick in a book bag - this is like a legendary story in my neighborhood,' he said. 'I swung that s*** and smacked the guy in the face with this brick and stomped on him, Joe Pesci-style, to the point that we thought he might die.' Rock said that the incident led him to fear his own capacity for anger, and in turn, letting people 'walk all over' him to avoid conflict.'Long story short, from that day on, as my shrink puts it to me, you have been scared to be angry ever since,' Rock said. 'The guy you saw was bending over backwards to be nice because I was so scared of my anger.' Rock said his childhood experiences led him to fear his own capacity for anger, and in turn, let people 'walk all.