Academy Awards co-hosts Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes said on Wednesday they were sickened by best actor winner Will Smith's slap of presenter Chris Rock at Sunday night's ceremony.
During the live Oscars telecast, Smith strode up to the stage after Rock made a joke about the appearance of Smith's wife, then smacked the comedian's face. The actor then returned to his seat and twice yelled an obscenity at Rock.Summer of Soul.
“Still triggered and traumatised,” Schumer said in a post on Instagram three days later. “I love my friend [Chris Rock] and believe he handled it like a pro. Stayed up there and gave an Oscar to his friend @questlove and the whole thing was so disturbing. “So much pain in [Will Smith] anyway I’m still in shock and stunned and sad,” she added. “Waiting for this sickening feeling to go away from what we all witnessed,” she said.Sykes also said the incident was “sickening” and that she felt physically ill at the time. “I'm still a little traumatised,” Sykes said in clips released on Wednesday from an interview on the Ellen DeGeneres talk show.
Less than an hour after his attack on Rock, Smith won best actor for his role as the father of tennis legends Venus and Serena Williams in “King Richard”. He gave a tear-filled acceptance speech in which he apologised to the academy and his fellow nominees — but not Rock.“For them to let him stay in that room and enjoy the rest of the show and accept his award, I was like how gross is this? This is just the wrong message,” she said.
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