Chris Rock sought counselling after Will Smith Oscars slap, says Leslie Jones
nme.comChris Rock sought counselling after being slapped by Will Smith at the 2022 Oscars.Speaking to People to promote her memoir – which features a foreword written by Rock – Jones said: “That shit was humiliating.
It really affected him. People need to understand his daughters, his parents, saw that. He had to go to counselling with his daughters.”Jones, who has been friends with Rock since the mid-’90s, said she was “infuriated” by the Oscars slap, adding: “You don’t know that I was going to jump in my car and roll up there.
I was so fucking mad on so many levels.”“Chris Rock did a fucking joke,” Jones continued. “I know Will, too… I was like, you couldn’t handle that shit afterwards.
This is the Oscars. The whole world is watching.”At the Oscars ceremony in March 2022, Smith slapped Rock onstage after the comedian made a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.
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