Wanda Sykes Calls Will Smith Oscar Slap “Sickening”: “I Physically Felt Ill”
deadline.comWanda Sykes called out Will Smith for slapping Chris Rock at the Academy Awards on Sunday while visiting with Ellen Degeneres for a segment to be aired on Thursday, April 7.Skyes, who co-hosted Hollywood’s biggest night alongside Regina Hall and Amy Schumer, revealed she didn’t see the altercation happen live.“I just felt so awful for my friend Chris,” she says in a video teaser for the episode below. “It was sickening.
I physically felt ill and I’m still a little traumatized by it. And for them to let him stay in that room and enjoy the rest of the show and accept his award—I was like, ‘How gross is this?’ This is just the wrong message.
You assault somebody, you get escorted out of the building and that’s it. For them to let him continue, I thought it was gross.”Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith were sitting in the front row at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood when Rock made a joke about Pinkett Smith’s hair.
The actress and Red Table Talk host has openly discussed her decision to keep her hair short as a result of having alopecia.
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