Oscars 2023: The Will Smith slap one year later — a timeline

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the most — unhinged, unexpected moments in the prestigious show’s 94-year history. “Jada, I love you. ‘GI Jane 2,’ can’t wait to see you,” Rock quipped about Jada Pinkett Smith’s bald head while presenting an award — prompting Smith to run onstage and strike him. “Keep my wife’s name out of your f–king mouth!” Smith infamously shouted at Rock after returning to his seat.

It was later reported that Rock didn’t know Pinkett Smith lived with alopecia, a hair loss disease, even though she has been open about her experience with the condition over the years.The move resulted in Smith being banned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the next 10 years.

Both he and Rock addressed the slap in the following months — each on their own time and terms. Moments after Smith rushed the stage, he returned to accept his first-ever Oscar for his role in “King Richard.”He tried to relate the slap to his film character, Venus and Serena Williams’ tennis-coach father Richard, who was a “fierce protector of his family.” Smith added that he looked like a “crazy father” but “love makes you do crazy things.”“I want to apologize to the Academy.

I want to apologize to all my fellow nominees,” he tearfully stated. Oscars producer Will Packer appeared on ABC’s “World News Tonight” just days after the awards show and claimed that Rock “saved” the night by opting not to press charges against his attacker. “They were saying, ‘This is battery,’ was the word they used in that moment,” Packer said of Los Angeles police officers that were allegedly ready to arrest the “Men in Black” star.“[The officers] said, ‘We will go get him, we are prepared to get him right now,’” he recalled, referring to Smith. “You can press charges and we can.