As she begins promoting her upcoming album, titled
Coping Mechanism
, Willow Smith has commented for the first time on the incident that pitted her father, actor Will Smith, against the presenter of the last Oscars ceremony, comedian Chris Rock.
The first had slapped the second live following a joke of the latter on the wife of the actor, Jaida Pinkett-Smith.
Chris Rock had made fun of the bald head of the actress and TV host, when she had already made it known publicly that she suffered from alopecia, a disease that causes hair loss.
Moments later, a tearful Will Smith received the Best Actor Oscar for
The Williams Method.
, where he plays the father and coach of tennis champions Serena and Venus Williams.
On the Billboard site, Willow, 21, explains that this episode "didn't upset her [in her artistic process] as much as her own inner demons.
“before continuing:” I see my family as a human entity and I love and accept them in all their humanity.
Because of our status, our humanity is not always accepted and we are expected to behave in ways that are inconsistent with healthy human life and not conducive to honesty.
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Chris Rock isn't ready to talk to Will Smith again
Following this incident, Will Smith was banned from Oscar academy events for 10 years.
He has since apologized to Chris Rock.
At the beginning of June, Jaida Pinkett-Smith called on the two men to reconcile.
But we will probably have to wait a little longer for that.
In a video posted at the end of July, the actor indicated having contacted the comedian: "the message that came back to me was that he was not ready to speak and that when he was, he would let me know. ".
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