Comic Chris Rock was seemingly ignored following the now-infamous slap on Sunday evening's Academy Awards broadcast and a number of stars flocked to console Will Smith.

Smith took the stage whereas Rock was gearing as much as current the Oscar for Greatest Documentary, throughout which period he made quite a few jokes, together with one about Jada Pinkett-Smith's buzz lower. Pinkett-Smith has publically disclosed her current analysis with alopecia, a medical situation that causes sporadic hair loss.

Seemingly offended on behalf, Smith took to the stage, slapped Rock, and went again to his seat, later shouting for the famed comic "Preserve my spouse's title out of your f***ing mouth." It's unknown if Rock was conscious of Pinkett-Smith's analysis when he made the joke.

Within the aftermath of the viral incident, these current within the Dolby Theater famous that quite a few celebrities approached Smith to console him, together with Denzel Washington, Tyler Perry, and Bradley Cooper. Washington later went to consolation Pinkett-Smith as nicely whereas Smith mentioned the state of affairs with a consultant. This led some on-line to surprise why Rock, the recipient of the assault, was not additionally approached for consolation.

"Wait a minute," one Twitter person, going by "Unhealthy Betty," wrote in response to a different publish from leisure reporter Scott Feinberg. "Why are folks comforting Will Smith? He's the perpetrator of against the law. This can be a good instance of poisonous masculinity."

"Did anybody verify... on the man that bought punched or is he not 'well-known sufficient'?" one other person wrote.

"I really feel they're comforting the unsuitable man?" New York Put up columnist Karol Markowicz added.

It ought to be famous that the discrepancy is probably going resulting from the truth that Rock, as a presenter, went backstage after presenting the award to the Summer time of Soul filmmakers. If he was comforted by anybody, it might not have been seen to anybody within the viewers, because it was for Smith.

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Will Smith slaps Chris Rock onstage in the course of the 94th Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on March 27, 2022 in Hollywood, California. Later, Smith can be consoled by quite a few stars, whereas Rock, seemingly, was not.Neilson Barnard/Getty Pictures

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Shortly afterward, Smith, greatest recognized for blockbusters like Independence Day and Males in Black, received his first Oscar, taking house Greatest Actor for taking part in the daddy of Venus and Serena Williams in King Richard. Throughout his acceptance speech, the teary-eyed Smith apologized to the Academy and the opposite nominees for the incident however notably didn't point out Rock.

"Richard Williams was a fierce defender of his household," Smith stated in the course of the speech, seeming to tie the themes of his movie to his confrontation earlier within the evening.

The Los Angeles Police Division confirmed that Rock declined to file a police report towards Smith. As Smith walked off stage, the comic appeared to take the slap in stride and with a attribute humorousness.

"Will Smith simply smacked the s--t out of me," Rock was heard saying in unedited worldwide broadcasts.