Jada Pinkett Smith used the latest episode of her Facebook Watch show Red Table Talk to address the infamous moment at this year’s Oscars when her husband, Will Smith, walked onto the stage at the Dolby Theatre and slapped comedian Chris Rock after he made a joke at Jada Pinkett Smith’s expense.
In the immediate wake of Smith slapping Rock on the Oscars telecast, Smith won the year’s Oscar for Best Actor for his performance in King Richard.
(Rock would later claim he didn’t know Pinkett Smith had alopecia.)
In the days after the slap, Smith resigned from the Academy; later, the Academy’s Board of Governors voted to ban Smith from the Oscars for ten years.