Willow Smith

After her dad, Will Smith, slapped Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars, Willow Smith shared a message on social media about being “kind.”

Jokes at my expense are a part of the job, but a joke about Jada's medical condition was too much for me to bear and I reacted emotionally." "He was in a good mood dancing and having fun," the eyewitness said. Will posed with his entire family, including his oldest son Trey Smith, 29 (whose mom is Sheree Zampino) on the red carpet and headed inside, where he was "acting as if nothing happened," a source exclusively told E! News. Will got up onstage and slapped the 57-year-old comedian across the face before screaming twice, "Keep my wife's name out of your f--king mouth." In another post that evening, the 23-year-old musician seemingly addressed Will's outburst, writing, "And That's How We Do It." And I'm here for it."

Willow Smith shared a reminder that people should be kind because they never know what someone is going through.

“I would like to publicly apologize to you, Chris. I was out of line and I was wrong. Just be kind.” The reminder came just days after Willow’s dad Will Smithbecame the center of the controversial incident where he slapped Chris Rockat the Academy Awards over a joke that the comic made about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith. The 21-year-old singer reposted an Instagram post from the author Jay Shetty that said, “You know who’s going through a lot right now?

Sheila Bridges, who appeared in “Good Hair,” a film produced by Chris Rock, was not amused by the comedian's Oscars joke about Jada Pinkett Smith.

On a 2018 episode of “Red Table Talk,” Pinkett Smith shared her thoughts on hair loss and how the condition has affected her emotionally. “I chose not to wear a wig for a number of reasons,” Bridges says in the film. I wanted to deal with accepting who you are and looking in the mirror and feeling as though you’re beautiful and legitimate. “Jokes at my expense are part of the job, but a joke about Jada’s medical condition was too much for me to bear and I reacted emotionally,” Smith wrote. “I never wanted to feel like I was hiding something. As if life isn’t challenging enough out here as an unprotected black woman?”

From 'The Fresh Prince' to Oscars infamy, Will Smith and Chris Rock have met many times over the course of their careers.

Rock and – what a coincidence – Jada Pinkett Smith were handing out the award for Favourite Voice from an Animated Movie at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards. Both Rock and Smith appeared in Torrance Rises, a mockumentary co-directed by and starring Spike Jonze, the ingenious film and music video director. He then followed up with a swing at both her and Smith, suggesting she was annoyed her husband wasn’t nominated for the sports drama Concussion: “It’s not fair that Will was this good and didn’t get nominated, you’re right. The gag – prepare your sides – is that Jasmine isn’t considered to be attractive and Will is uncomfortable to be seen in public with her. To promote the film she guested on The Chris Rock Show, where they joked about how quickly Black characters get offed in horror films. Their relationship spans three decades and stretches back past 1997, the year Smith and Pinkett were married and G. I. Jane – the action-drama starring a shaven-headed Demi Moore which Rock referenced in his joke – was released.