Chris Rock Just Revealed If He’s Spoken to Will Smith Amid Reports Their Feud Is ‘Over’
31.03.2022 - 19:15
/ stylecaster.com
People still have plenty of questions about Chris Rock and Will Smith’s feud after the King Richard actor issued an apology to the comedian for smacking him across the face at the 94th Annual Academy Awards. Among them is whether or not the pair have even officially spoken after the incident—and now, Rock is letting us know the truth.
The Everybody Hates Chris creator made his return to stand-up in Boston, MA, on March 30, 2022, marking his first time back on stage since Smith slapped him at the 2022 Oscars after Rock made a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. During his first of two shows at Boston’s Wilbur Theater, Rock briefly addressed the incident at the top of his set. “I don’t have a bunch of shit about what happened, so if you came to hear that, I had like a whole show I wrote before this weekend,” he said, adding, “And I’m still kind of processing what happened, so at some point, I’ll talk about that shit. And it’ll be serious and it’ll be funny, but right now I’m going to tell some jokes.”
Later in the evening, Rock returned to the stage for a second show and reiterated his plans to talk about the smacking incident at a later date. “I wrote a show before all this nonsense happened,” he said. Then, Rock revealed whether he’s had a chance to speak to Smith: “I haven’t talked to anyone, despite what you heard,” he said, seemingly in reference to previous reports that the pair had already worked through their issues.
In a report by Page Six following Smith’s smack, rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs was quoted as saying that the Pursuit of Happyness actor and the Saturday Night Live alum had settled their differences after the Academy Awards on March 27, 2022. “That’s not a problem. That’s over. I can confirm that,” he