Amy Schumer Says ‘People Made Fun of’ Her for Calling Will Smith, Chris Rock Slap ‘Traumatizing’

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Dealing with her own backlash. Amy Schumer has been candid about her honest reaction to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars, but some haven’t appreciated it.“It was so upsetting,” the 94th annual Academy Awards cohost, 40, told Howard Stern on Wednesday, April 13, about the onstage incident — during which Smith, 53, smacked Rock, 57, across the face for making fun of Jada Pinkett Smith.“People made fun of me for saying that it was traumatizing, but I don’t think it was traumatizing for me,” the Life & Beth star elaborated. “I think it was traumatizing for all of us.”Schumer — who cohosted the Oscars on March 27 with Wanda Sykes and Regina Hall — tweeted on March 30 that she was “still triggered and traumatized” by the violence inflicted on the Everybody Hates Chris alum by the King Richard star. (After slapping Rock for the comedian’s joke about Pinkett Smith’s shaved head — the Red Table Talk host has alopecia — Smith yelled at the South Carolina native, twice, to “keep my wife’s name out your f—king mouth.”)The Inside Amy Schumer alum told Stern, 68, about how the altercation overshadowed Questlove‘s win for Best Documentary Feature for Summer of Soul, which Rock was presenting at the time. “Chris Rock’s my good friend.

Questlove is one of my best friends. We’re close. To see that happen, to see your friend get hit” was difficult for her to witness, she explained.Schumer noted that the “trauma” of watching Smith slap Rock was also so hard because the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air alum is someone “who I’ve loved — who we’ve loved forever … I don’t remember a time I didn’t think, ‘I love that guy,’” she said, reasoning that the Ali actor “must have been in so much pain” to hit the Saturday Night Live alum.“It was