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Will Smith smacked Chris Rock after his joke<\/strong><\/p>\n Will Smith has said he has \u201creached out\u201d to Chris Rock after slapping him at the Oscars, but the comedian has said he is \u201cnot ready to talk\u201d.<\/p>\n The actor slapped Rock on stage at the Academy Awards in March, after the comic made a joke about Smith\u2019s wife.<\/p>\n On Friday, Smith released a video reflecting on the slap \u2013 the first time he has been seen discussing it \u2013 in which he reiterated his apology.<\/p>\n \u201cChris, I apologise to you. My behaviour was unacceptable,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m here whenever you\u2019re ready to talk.\u201d<\/p>\n Smith has previously only issued written statements about the altercation. In the video, on his own YouTube channel, he answers questions that appear to be written by fans.<\/p>\n He reads out the questions himself, addressing the camera directly.<\/p>\n \u201cI spent the last three months replaying and understanding the nuances and the complexities of what happened at that moment,\u201d the actor said.<\/p>\n \u201cI wasn\u2019t thinking about how many people got hurt in that moment\u2026 There is no part of me that thinks that was the right way to behave in that moment.\u201d<\/p>\n Smith explained: \u201cI\u2019ve reached out to Chris and the message that came back is that he\u2019s not ready to talk and when he is, he will reach out.\u201d<\/p>\n He also said his wife Jada Pinkett Smith did not ask him to do something to defend her after Rock made the joke. \u201cJada had nothing to do with it,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to say sorry to my kids and my family for the heat that I brought on all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n Smith also apologised to his fellow nominees at the Oscars ceremony.<\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Will Smith smacked Chris Rock after his joke Will Smith has said he has \u201creached out\u201d to Chris Rock after slapping him at the Oscars, but the comedian has said he is \u201cnot ready to talk\u201d. The actor slapped Rock on stage at the Academy Awards in March, after the comic made a joke […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1163760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2528,7286,718,687,7287,2271],"class_list":["post-1163755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-chris","tag-oscars","tag-ready","tag-rock","tag-slap","tag-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}