Oscars host Wanda Sykes shares her thoughts on the Will Smith and Chris Rock incident.
✖ Hollywood's biggest night took place on Sunday as the 94th Academy Awards saw some big wins for CODA, Dune, and more. However, it wasn't the award-winning films that had the Internet talking the next day. Shortly before he won the Best Actor Oscar for King Richard, Will Smith went on stage and slapped presenter Chris Rock over a joke about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith.
"I just felt so awful for my friend Chris. And it was sickening, absolutely sickening," Sykes told DeGeneres in a clip from her episode, which will air on Thursday."I physically felt ill, and I'm still a little traumatized by it," she added."And for them to let him stay in that room and enjoy the rest of the show and accept his award, I was like, 'How gross is this? This is just the wrong message.
Skyes continued,"You assault somebody, you get escorted out the building and that's it. For them to let him continue, I thought was gross." She recalled,"I'm like, 'What happened? What happened?' Everyone was like, 'Oh, my God,' ...
"I know he apologized to Chris, but I believe that, you know, we were the hosts," Sykes explains."This was our house; we invited you in; we were gonna take care of you all and make sure you had a good time. And no one has apologized to us. And we worked really hard to put that show together.
While both Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith have shared posts on social media in the wake of the altercation, Rock has yet to address the incident publicly. The Academy has claimed they have opened up an investigation into how best to handle the exchange.
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