“I just felt so awful about my boyfriend, Chris, and it was disgusting,” he told DeGeneres, according to a preview video. “I felt physically ill and I’m still a little bit injured by it.” Sykes also expressed her frustration with Smith staying in the theater and accepting the Best Actor award. “To let him stay in this room and enjoy the rest of the series and accept his prize, I said, ‘How ugly is that?’ “This is just the wrong message,” he said. To let him go, I thought he was coarse. In addition, I wanted to be able to run out after he won and say, “Unfortunately Will could not be here tonight …” Smith apologized for the incident. Rock has not yet made public comments, but is set to return to the stage tonight in Boston on his stand-up tour. Sykes says she is upset that “no one” has apologized to her and her partners Amy Schumer and Regina Hall. “We worked very hard to make this show,” he said, only to be overshadowed. Sykes shared that she and Rock, however, were interacting in the second half and apologized, saying, “It’s supposed to be your night,” according to Sykes. “This is Chris,” he said.
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Schumer, meanwhile, took to Instagram to share her thoughts, saying she still felt “fired and injured.” “I love my friend @chrisrock and I think he handled it like a professional,” he wrote. “He stayed up there and gave an Oscar to his friend @questlove and the whole thing was so disturbing.” Rock was presenting the Best Documentary Award when Smith rushed on stage and hit him in the face for a joke Rock made about Smith’s wife, actress Jada Pinkett Smith. “I’m still in shock, surprised and sad. I’m proud of myself and my hosts. But yes. I’m waiting for this disgusting feeling to go away from what we all saw,” Schumer wrote in the post, which she also used. Hulu’s “Life and Beth” series, joking: “I think we can all agree that the best way to decompress what happened is to broadcast my series.”
