{"id":109657,"date":"2023-10-12T09:35:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T09:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/10\/12\/chris-rock-allegedly-asked-jada-pinkett-smith-out-on-a-date-amid-divorce-rumours\/"},"modified":"2023-10-12T09:35:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T09:35:23","slug":"chris-rock-allegedly-asked-jada-pinkett-smith-out-on-a-date-amid-divorce-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/10\/12\/chris-rock-allegedly-asked-jada-pinkett-smith-out-on-a-date-amid-divorce-rumours\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Rock allegedly asked Jada Pinkett Smith out on a date amid divorce rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"article-text\">\n                        \n\n                        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith\u2019s marriage has been a topic of interest for many in recent years, even to Chris Rock, according to Pinkett Smith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEvery summer all the reports would come out that me and Will were getting a divorce,\u201d Pinkett Smith\u00a0told People magazine. \u201cAnd this particular summer, Chris [Rock], he thought that we were getting a divorce. So he called me and basically he was like, \u2018I\u2019d love to take you out.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pinkett Smith said she was taken aback by the call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI was like, \u2018What do you mean?\u2019 He was like, \u2018Well, aren\u2019t you and Will getting a divorce?\u2019 I was like, \u2018No. Chris, those are just rumors,\u2019\u201d Pinket Smith recalled. \u201cHe was appalled. And he profusely apologized and that was that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CNN has reached out to representatives for Rock for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pinkett Smith writes about the encounter in her forthcoming memoir, \u201cWorthy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her husband, Will Smith,\u00a0slapped Rock\u00a0as he was presenting an award during the 2022 Oscars telecast after Rock made a joke about Pinkett Smith being bald. She suffers from alopecia, which has caused her hair loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pinkett Smith told People that she believed there had been a \u201cmisunderstanding between Chris and I as far as the 2016 Oscars.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That year Rock was hosting the awards show and Pinkett Smith called for a boycott as part of the #OscarsSoWhite movement after her husband was overlooked for a nomination for his performance in \u201cConcussion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She now says she may not have been aware of the \u201clevel of pressure\u201d Rock may have been under at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI probably should have called him and gone, \u2018Hey, are you okay?,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cAnd just know that although I\u2019m speaking out about the Oscars, I do wish you the best and I just want you to know that,\u2019 me taking the time to have called him and said that, just to touch base. But his feelings might\u2019ve been hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pair spoke and apologized to each other after the 2016 incident, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pinkett Smith said Rock tried to talk to her during a break in the 2022 Oscars ceremony following the slap in an attempt to apologize to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe said, \u2018I didn\u2019t mean you any harm.\u2019 I said, \u2018I can\u2019t talk about this now, Chris. This is some old s**t,\u2019\u201d she told People. \u201cI thought this was [about] the Oscar 2016 and \u2026 their stuff that they had before I even came into the picture in the late \u201980s. I\u2019ve got to leave that to Will and Chris to talk about, but they got their stuff for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her memoir is set to be published Oct. 17.<\/p>\n \n                               <p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>      \n                <!-- Post Tags -->\n                \n\n                         \n                                             \n                    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith\u2019s marriage has been a topic of interest for many in recent years, even to Chris Rock, according to Pinkett Smith. \u201cEvery summer all the reports would come out that me and Will were getting a divorce,\u201d Pinkett Smith\u00a0told People magazine. \u201cAnd this particular summer, Chris [Rock], he thought that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - 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