Chris Rock's Mom Has A Stern Message For Will Smith After Oscars Slap

Chris Rock might be biding his time to fully address being slapped by Will Smith on the Oscars stage, but his mother isn’t holding back. 

The now-infamous incident took place at the 94th annual ceremony last month when Smith walked on stage and assaulted the comedian over an insensitive joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, whom Rock said was starring in a “G.I. Jane” sequel due to her shaved head.

Speaking with local South Carolina news station WIS-TV on Friday, Rose Rock, a motivational speaker and author, addressed the altercation for the first time and didn’t exactly mince words when it came to the Smith family.  

“When Will slapped Chris, he slapped all of us. He really slapped me,” Rose Rock told WIS’s Billie Jean Shaw. “Because when you hurt my child, you hurt me.”

The Rock matriarch said she initially believed the slap was staged until Smith “started using obscenities.”

“You reacted to your wife giving you the side-eye, and you went up, and you made her day because she was bowled over laughing when it happened,” she said, remarking that Smith “could have gotten taken out in handcuffs.”

After slapping Rock, Smith returned to his seat, where he told Rock to “keep my wife’s name out your fucking mouth.” Pinkett Smith has publicly discussed her struggle with alopecia, which causes hair loss. 

She also took particular offense to the incident overshadowing the award Rock was onstage to present. The comedian ultimately handed over the trophy for Best Documentary Feature award to Questlove for his film “Summer of Soul.”