Mika Brzezinski slams Will Smith’s Oscar smack: Jada ‘can take care of herself’

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cracked a bald wisecrack about Smith’s actress wife, who’s been open about her ongoing struggle with alopecia. In response, Smith, 53, who had just won the Best Actor Oscar for his work in “King Richard,” strolled onto the stage and slapped the comic across the face — before taking a seat and warning Rock to “keep my wife’s name out of your f—king mouth.”Brzezinski, 54, for one, didn’t take kindly to Smith’s fight knighting, insisting that his soulmate was more than capable of defending herself, the Wrap reported.“Jada Pinkett Smith is one of the most empowered, helpful to women, women that I’ve ever, you know, seen out there in front,” Brzezinski said on Monday’s episode. “She is strong; she’s beautiful; she shares a lot of vulnerable stories during her ‘Red Table Talks.'”The political commenter continued, “She goes where no one has the guts to go.

She can take care of herself, thank you, No. 1.”In general, Brzezinski deemed it “disappointing” that Smith decided to react to words with violence, saying: “Will Smith had a long time to think about what he was doing as he was walking up on that stage, and I just don’t know how it still came to that.”“[It was] a terrible display.

Especially with everything that we’re covering in the world,” the journalist added, presumably in reference to Russia’s ongoing invasion of the Ukraine.Brezinski concluded her soap box session by chastising the “Ali” actor over his post-punch mea culpa, which she claimed left out a crucial party.“Did he apologize to Chris Rock in his apology?” she inquired. “Did anyone catch that?

Did I miss it? Did he not include it? He didn’t apologize to the man he hit, he assaulted on stage?” Indeed, Will Smith’s Academy Awards smackdown has divided the public.