Jada Pinkett Smith Says Chris Rock Requested Her on a Date Amid Earlier Will Smith Divorce Stories

Jada Pinkett Smith, who’s selling her new memoir, Worthy, says that Chris Rock requested her on a date previous to husband Will Smith slapping the comic on the 2022 Oscars ceremony.

The Matrix actress writes about Rock asking her on the date in Worthy, based on Folks. In an interview with the publication that printed on-line Wednesday, Pinkett Smith mentioned that Rock’s supply adopted media experiences claiming that she and Smith have been set to divorce.

“I believe each summer time all of the experiences would come out that me and Will have been getting a divorce,” Pinkett Smith mentioned. “And this explicit summer time, Chris, he thought that we have been getting a divorce. So he referred to as me and mainly he was like, ‘I’d like to take you out.’ And I used to be like, ‘What do you imply?’ He was like, ‘Effectively, aren’t you and Will getting a divorce?’”

She continued, “I used to be like, ‘No. Chris, these are simply rumors.’ He was appalled. And he profusely apologized, and that was that.”

The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to Rock’s representatives for remark.

Throughout a Wednesday interview with Hoda Kotb on At present, Pinkett Smith revealed that she and Smith have lived separate lives since 2016 however don’t plan to legally divorce. They tied the knot in 1997 and have two grownup youngsters, Jaden and Willow. 

In her interview with Folks, Pinkett Smith additionally mentioned that she hasn’t spoken to Rock since Smith slapped the comic on the stage throughout the Academy Awards telecast that aired March 27, 2022. The confrontation adopted Rock joking onstage about Pinkett Smith’s shaved head. The actress had beforehand spoken publicly about residing with alopecia.

“Chris got here all the way down to the top of the stage and tried to apologize to me,” Pinkett Smith recalled concerning the speedy aftermath of the Oscars incident. “He mentioned, ‘I didn’t imply you any hurt.’ I mentioned, ‘I can’t discuss this now, Chris. That is some previous shit.’”

She added that she initially assumed that the 2022 scenario was associated to Pinkett Smith having referred to as for a boycott of the 2016 Academy Awards ceremony — which Rock hosted — amid the #OscarsSoWhite motion. In his 2016 Oscars monologue, Rock joked about Pinkett Smith boycotting the awards present by quipping that she wouldn’t have been invited.

“I assumed this was [about] the Oscar 2016 and … their stuff that they’d earlier than I even got here into the image within the late ’80s,” Pinkett Smith continued. “I’ve obtained to depart that to Will and Chris to speak about, however they obtained their stuff for positive.”