Chris Rock is sick of the blame sport.
The comedian on Friday (July 29) appeared to reference having been slapped by the Oscar winner at this yr’s Academy Awards — this time, simply hours after Smith took to Facebook with a long-awaited apology for what shortly got here to be often called The Slap Heard Round the World, CNN experiences.
“Everybody is trying to a (expletive) victim. If everybody claims to be a victim, then nobody will hear the real victims,” stated the Brooklyn, New York-raised funnyman, in accordance to the outlet. “Even me getting smacked by Suge Smith … I went to work the next day, I got kids.”
Rock later advised the viewers: “Anyone who says words hurt has never been punched in the face.”
Smith on Friday appeared sombre in a almost six-minute video he posted to social media, noting that he had “fogged out” by the point he accepted the most effective actor award for King Richard and failed to apologise to Rock throughout his speech.
While he apologised to each Rock and his household — together with the latter’s youthful brother and Smith’s previously shut buddy, Tony Rock — in addition to his family, the Hitch star continued to describe the altercation as a type of protection after feeling disrespected — although he clarified he seen it as unacceptable conduct.
Smith slapped Rock after the comic joked that the shorter coiffure sported by Jada Pinkett Smith, who publicly suffers from alopecia, regarded akin to G.I. Jane 2.
Rock final weekend made comparable remarks throughout his Holmdel, New Jersey, present, however added on the time that he is “not a victim, (expletive).”
While again noting that he returned to work immediately after the incident, he reportedly said, “Yes, that s— hurt, (expletive). But I shook that s— off.” – New York Daily News/Tribune News Service
