Smith took the stage and hit Rock before returning to his seat, shouting, “Keep my wife’s name out of your mouth.” Smith later apologized in a tearful acceptance speech for the best actor, saying: “Love will make you do crazy things.” He also revealed what Denzel Washington told him after the incident: “At the highest level, then the devil is coming for you.”
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“I am called in my life to love people and protect people and be a river to my people,” Smith said. “I know, in order to do what we do, we have to be able to accept the abuse. “You have to be able to make people talk crazy about you. In this business, you have to be able to have people who do not respect you. “You have to smile and pretend it’s okay.” But director Judd Apatow called the incident “pure anger and out-of-control violence” on Twitter. “She could have killed him. This is completely out of control anger and violence. They have heard a million jokes about them in the last three decades. He is not a freshman in the world of Hollywood and comedy. “He lost his mind,” he wrote on Twitter. “It seems that Will Smith’s plan to convince the comedian and the people not to make jokes with him is not going to come out. The Williams family must be furious. “Pure narcissism,” he added. “Also – GI Jane was wonderful. “What exactly is offensive to compare you to a torn, striking Demi?” wrote, referring to the film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Demi Moore.
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Getty Images Comedian Kathy Griffin wrote: “Let me tell you something, it’s very bad practice to go on stage and physically attack a comedian. “Now we all have to worry about who the next Will Smith wants to be in comedy clubs and theaters.” Will and Janda’s son, Jaden Smith, wrote on Twitter, “And so we do,” later posting, “My dad’s talk made me cry.” Actress and model Jodi Turner-Smith said: “And as long as * this incident goes * …. . “I’m still working,” he wrote. “I have second-hand embarrassment for everyone involved.” Booker’s award-winning author Bernardine Evaristo wrote on Twitter: “What a thing to wake up to. Only the fifth black man in almost 100 years to win an Academy Award for Best Actor and the first in 16 years to use violence instead of using the power of words to kill Chris Rock. Then he claims that God and Love made him do it “. Spinal Tap director Rob Rainer said Smith’s excuses did not work. “Will Smith owes Chris Rock a huge apology. There is no excuse for what he did. He is lucky that Chris does not charge for the attack. The excuses he made tonight were bulls *** “. Speaking to reporters on the red carpet, former One Direction member Liam Payne said: “I believe that whatever he felt he did, he had the right to do.” He added that Rock, Smith and Pinkett-Smith were all losers in the fight. “I had to leave my chair, I will be honest with you, he cut me very deep.” British comedian Matt Lucas wrote on Twitter: “I thought I was dreaming, but I just looked on YouTube and it really happened.” Piers Morgan called it the “worst moment” in Oscar history, writing on Twitter: “It was real. I just saw the footage without censorship. Will Smith hit Chris Rock for making a funny GI Jane about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith (who suffers from alopecia) – and then shouted at him twice, “Keep my wife’s name out of your mouth.” “B! Tch never play with me. “LOL”, wrote rapper 50 Cent in the caption of a screenshot of the actor of Fresh Prince of Bel Air making a swing in the stand-up comic. Actress Mia Farrow also called it the “worst moment of the Oscars”. Singer Nicki Minaj, defending Smith, wrote on Twitter: “You just have to see in real time what happens in a man’s soul when he looks at the woman he loves and sees her holding back her tears from a” little joke “against her . “This is what anyone and every real man feels at that moment. “While you watch the joke, she sees her pain.” Democratic Sen. Malcolm Kenyatta, a Philadelphia Senate nominee, commented: “Will Smith who beats Chris Rock and QuestLove who won an Oscar are the two most back-to-back things that have ever happened at the Oscars.” Derek Blasberg, head of fashion and beauty at YouTube, posted “these are all on my table at the @vanityfair Oscar dinner maniac wtf Will Smith just told Chris Rock.” A shocking reaction from Nicole Kidman has become an instant sensation on the internet in relation to the incident. Fans claimed that Kidman’s shocked face, which was allegedly immortalized earlier in the ceremony, was similar to the general reaction of most of the world audience. / AFP via Getty Images Will Smith did not seem to be bothered by the quarrel and was spotted dancing and singing along with the hit “Gettin” Jiggy With It at a Vanity Fair party. The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said it had not yet received a police report following the altercation. “LAPD research entities are aware of an incident between two individuals during the Oscars program,” a LAPD spokesman told the PA news agency. “The incident involved one person slapping another. The person involved refused to report to the police. “If the party involved wishes for a police report at a later date, the LAPD will be available to complete an investigation report.” The Academy responded by saying that “it does not forgive violence of any kind.” “Tonight we are delighted to celebrate the 94th Academy Awards winners, who deserve recognition at this time from their peers and film lovers around the world.” Fans were quick to point out that this is not the first time Rock has joked about Pinkett-Smith at the aristocratic ceremony. In 2016, when he presented the awards that had been boycotted for lack of diversity, Rock said: “Jada [Pinkett Smith] Boycotting the Oscars is like boycotting Rihanna’s underwear. I was not invited. “
