And just when you thought there wasn’t a reason to tune into the Oscars…

Did you wake up this morning and see everyone saying WOAH…did Will Smith really slap Chris Rock on stage at the Oscars? It seems so.

Will Smith shocked the world last night when he walked on stage and slapped Chris Rock across the face.

Chris Rock opened his presentation with a bit, acknowledging the mostly mask-free audience, before making a reference to Will’s wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith’s bald head, stating he couldn’t wait to see her in a fictional film, “GI Jane 2”, a reference to the 1997 film G.I. Jane, where Demi Moore shaved her head while undergoing grueling military training.

Will left his seat next to his wife, purposefully strolled up to Chris before slapping him in the face. The audio was cut for several seconds after the OMG-moment, but Will then walked back to his seat, where a camera caught video of him yelling a message back to Chris: “Keep my wife’s name out your f––king mouth.”

Jada has previously spoken publicly about battling a medical condition that causes hair loss.

Was it just an act? Was it staged? Are they just actors doing what they do best?

Or was the slap real?

Here is another look at it (NSFW) as it wasn’t edited in Australia.

Everyone seemed to laugh about it when Sean Combs addressed the moment…”Will and Chris, we’re gonna solve that like family at the Gold Party.”

During his Best Actor acceptance speech, a tearful Will Smith apologized to the Academy, and to the audience saying he is being “called to protect people.”

Do you think Will Smith slapping Chris Rock was justified?

3-28-22