Who can forget that moment when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on the Oscar stage? Smith was enraged when Rock, 57, joked about his wife, 51-year-old Jada Pickett Smith’s shorn head, asking her if she was going to be in “G.I. Jane 2.” Later, Smith apologised for his behaviour: “My behaviour at last night’s Academy Awards was unacceptable and inexcusable. Jokes at my expense are a part of the job, but a joke about my Jada’s medical condition [alopecia] was too much for me to bear and I reacted emotionally… I would like to publicly apologise to you, Chris. I was out of line and I was wrong. I am embarrassed and my actions were not indicative of the man I want to be. There is no place for violence in a world of love and kindness.”
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