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Oscars Host Wanda Sykes Missed Will Smith Slap, Feels Sick for Chris Rock: I’m Still ‘Traumatized’

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Reliving Sunday’s drama. Wanda Sykes, who cohosted the 94th annual Academy Awards, opened up about her perspective on Chris Rock and Will Smith’s onstage confrontation.“We [fellow host Regina Hall and I] had finished the bit and I guess I was about to change to get into PJs but then, I was like, ‘Oh,’ because we had just introduced Chris from our bit,” Sykes, 58, recalled during a Wednesday, March 30, appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. “So, I ran to my trailer because I wanted to watch him.

I was getting changed and watching him, and then, from the moment that I went from the trailer — because I wanted to be in the house to watch — to the moment I got to the monitor, I just saw Will leaving the stage and everything was quiet.”The Monster-in-Law actress, who explained that she was confused at the events she had missed,  saw Smith, 53, “start cursing from his seat.”She continued: “I was just like, ‘What?

Is this really happening?’ … I just felt so awful for my friend Chris, and it was sickening; it was absolutely sickening. I physically felt ill and I’m still a little traumatized by it.”During the Sunday, March 27, ceremony, the 57-year-old Saturday Night Live alum joked that Jada Pinkett Smith would be a perfect fit for a potential G.I.

Jane sequel due to her shaved head. The 50-year-old Maryland native — who wed the King Richard star in December 1997 — rolled her eyes at the joke, prompting her husband to walk up on stage and slap Rock.“Keep my wife’s name out your f—king mouth,” the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air alum yelled at the time. (Smith has since apologized for his actions while Rock has yet to publicly respond.)Following the incident, Smith earned the coveted Lead Actor trophy for his role as Richard Williams

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