Jada Pinkett Smith

My deepest hope is that these two intelligent, capable men have an opportunity to heal, talk this out, and reconcile,” she said on the latest 'Red Table ...

Days after the Oscars telecast, she slyly addressed the moment on Instagram, writing, “This is a season for healing and I’m here for it.” When the fifth season of Red Table Talk premiered in April, a title card acknowledging the incident appeared. “Some of the discoveries around our healing will be shared at the table when the time calls. “This is a really important Red Table Talk on alopecia,” Pinkett Smith began. “I was just like, What is the universe doing right now? The slap, which got Smith banned from the Academy Awards for a decade, was largely absent from the remainder of Wednesday’s episode. For the first time since that ubiquitous Oscars slap, Jada Pinkett Smith is sharing her thoughts on what went down.

Two months after her husband, Will Smith, struck comedian Chris Rock for making a joke about Pinkett Smith's shaved head during the Academy Awards telecast, the ...

Less than a month after the slap happened, she opened the season premiere of her online talk series with this statement: “Considering all that has happened in the last few weeks, the Smith family has been focusing on deep healing. “My deepest hope is that these two intelligent, capable men have an opportunity to heal, talk this out and reconcile. The state of the world today, we need them both,” she continued.

Actor and talk show host Jada Pinkett Smith says she hopes Will Smith and Chris Rock can reconcile in her first Red Table Talk episode to address events ...

You’re going through a spell of something, and you got to shave your head,” Pinkett Smith said. - Jada Pinkett Smith has mentioned the Oscar slap incident in her Red Table Talk episode Jada Pinkett Smith addresses Oscars slap in Red Table Talk episode

Will Smith's wife has publicly addressed the 'opportunity' she wants for her husband since the controversial Oscars slap.

“The Smith family has been focusing on deep healing. Rock said: “Will Smith just smacked the s**t out of me,” before continuing to present the award. The mother of two went on to say that she and Smith, who have been together for 28 years, have been “focusing on deep healing”, which she would speak about at another time. Pinkett Smith now hopes the two can find an “opportunity to heal”. In a moment that shocked the world, Will Smith took to the stage and slapped 57-year-old Rock across the face, in apparent defence of his wife. Jada Pinkett Smith has publicly addressed Will Smith’s controversial Oscars slap for the first time, saying she hopes her husband and Chris Rock can “reconcile” their differences.

The episodes are Pinkett Smith's first major response since Will Smith slapped Chris Rock.

When presenting an award at the Oscars in March, Rock joked about Pinkett Smith, who was seated with Smith close to the stage, and compared her appearance to the movie character G.I. Jane. Smith took to the stage and slapped and yelled at Rock. Later that night he won the award for Best Oscar. Smith apologized to Rock and to the Academy, which he permanently resigned from. The Academy also banned Smith from being able to attend events put on by the group for 10 years, though he can still be nominated for awards. Shortly after the incident, she said in a statement that her family is “focusing on deep healing” and some “discoveries” from that process will be shared on Red Table Talk “when the time comes.”

The actress briefly detailed the before, during and after on her “Red Table Talk” show on June 1. To open the show, Pinkett opened up about alopecia and the ...

Considering what I’ve been through and what happened at the Oscars, thousands have reached out to me with their stories,” Pinkett Smith said. Smith later resigned from the Academy altogether. “The state of the world today, we need them both, and we all actually need one another more than ever.