Chat show host Whoopi Goldberg says Will Smith will not have his Oscar taken away after slapping Chris Rock on stage at the Academy Awards last night. Goldberg, a governor of the awards, said the King Richard star “made a mistake”.
The former Oscars host said the star had been under a lot of pressure on the night and had “snapped” and “overreacted”. Smith went on stage and hit the comedian in front of a star-studded audience at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, after Rock made a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith and her hair loss.
Red Table Talk host Pinkett Smith has previously spoken about her struggles with alopecia and said it is what prompted her to shave her head. The incident prompted enormous backlash on social media and across Hollywood, with the Academy saying it “does not condone violence in any form”, and involvement from the Los Angeles Police Department.
