Smith released a nearly six-minute-long, self-led Q&A video to YouTube, addressing the moment when he slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars.
Well, you knew it would come at some point. It was just a matter of when. After Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at March's Academy Awards ceremony—following a barb Rock made referring to
Friends, that day is today. On Friday morning, Smith released a video to his nearly 10-million-subscriber-strong YouTube channel, titled, 'It's been a minute..." Over the course of about six minutes, Smith participates in a slightly odd, self-led Q&A session about anything and everything Slap. The first question asks why he didn't apologise to Rock in his acceptance speech, when he won Best Actor for his role in"I was fogged out by that point, Smith said.
This is the first we've heard from Smith about the Oscars in roughly three months, since he resigned from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. On that end, addressing his peers, Smith said,"To all my fellow nominees, you know, this is a community, it’s like I won because you voted for me. And it really breaks my heart to have stolen and tarnished your moment. I can still see Questlove’s eyes. You know, it happened on Questlove’s award.
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