Jada Pinkett Smith talks Oscar slap, hopes Will Smith and Chris Rock ‘talk this out and reconcile’

Jada Pinkett Smith (right) hopes that her husband Will Smith and Chris Rock could “reconcile” after Smith slapped the comedian during the Oscars. Photos: AFP

Jada Pinkett Smith said she hoped her husband Will Smith and Chris Rock could “reconcile” after Smith slapped the comedian during the world-wide broadcast of the Academy Awards.

Pinkett Smith addressed the slap – briefly – during her Red Table Talk show.

The topic of the Facebook Watch show was alopecia – an autoimmune skin disease that can cause hair loss – which Pinkett Smith suffers from since she announced her diagnosis in 2018.

It made headlines when Smith slapped Rock after the comedian made a joke about her shaved head at the 2022 Oscars.

“Considering what I’ve been through with my own health, and what happened at the Oscars, thousands have reached out to me with their stories.

"I’m using this moment to give our alopecia family an opportunity to talk about what it’s like to have this condition and to inform some people what alopecia really is,” she said in a message to viewers that aired before the June 1 episode, per The Cut....

“Now, about Oscar night. My deepest hope is that these two intelligent, capable men have an opportunity to heal, talk this out, and reconcile,” she said.

“The state of the world today? We need them both. And we all actually need one another more than ever. 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.”

US actor Will Smith (right) slaps US actor Chris Rock onstage during the 94th Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California. Photo: AFP

On April 1, two days after the motion picture academy met to initiate disciplinary proceedings against Smith for violations against the group’s standards of conduct, the Academy award-winning actor resigned.

The resignation comes at the end of a headline-grabbing week that started at the Oscars when the actor slapped Chris Rock after the comedian made a joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.

The exchange began when Rock made a joke about Pinkett Smith’s shaved head, saying, “Jada, I love you. G.I. Jane 2, can’t wait to see it, all right?”

The reference was of the 1997 film G.I. Jane, starring Demi Moore, who shaved her head to portray a fictional Navy Seal candidate. – Advance Local Media LLC/Tribune News Service

Will Smith (right) sits alongside US actress Jada Pinkett Smith with the award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for 'King Richard' during the 94th Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on March 27, 2022. Photo: AFP