Jada Pinkett Calls On Will Smith And Chris Rock To Reconcile
Jada Pinkett Smith directly addressed the infamous Oscar-night slap during an episode of “Red Table Talk” on Wednesday.
Two months after her husband, Will Smith, struck comedian Chris Rock for making a joke about Pinkett Smith’s hairless head during the Academy Awards telecast, the actress used “the moment” on her Facebook Watch show to shed light on the auto-immune condition that caused her hair loss.
“This is a really important ‘Red Table Talk’ about alopecia. Considering what I’ve been through with my health and what happened at the Oscars, thousands have reached out to me with their stories,” she said in an introduction to the episode.
“Now, about Oscar night,” Pinkett Smith said. Since that night, Smith has resigned from the academy and was banned from attending Oscar ceremonies for 10 years; Rock has given no public statements about the incident.
“My deepest hope is that these two intelligent, capable men have an opportunity to heal, talk this out and reconcile. The state of the world today, we need them both,” she continued.
“Until then, Will and I are continuing to do what we have done for the last 28 years, and that’s keep figuring out this thing called life together.”
