Actor Will Smith posted a YouTube video Friday apologizing for striking presenter Chris Rock during the live TV broadcast of this year’s Academy Awards ceremony. This video viral on social media and twitter. Audiences around the world watched Smith stride onstage after Rock made a crack about Smith’s wife’s short haircut. Those locking very different than all over. Smith slapped Rock in the face.
Chris Rock referenced his now infamous Oscars slap during a tour stop in Atlanta, just hours after Will Smith released an apology video.
There had been speculation that Smith would open up about the fallout surrounding the Rock slap in interview with a high-profile journalist, but instead the actor has opted to use social media to directly address his fans. In the wake of the slap, Smith resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Oscars and offered up statements of contrition.,,
Smith slapped Rock onstage after a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith, and her appearance.After the slap, Smith resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
He also told in one interview, i ve reached out to Chris and the message that came back is that he’s not ready to talk and when he is, he will reach out so I will say to you Chris, I apologise to you. My behaviour was unacceptable and I’m here whenever you’re ready to talk,” Smith said in the lengthy video, i explain in this video.