American actress and presenter has finally spoken out, saying Chris Rock asked her out thinking she and Will were getting a divorce.
In March last year, the world was shocked to see the Academy Awards Best Actor nominee (and later, winner) go up the stage and slap the show’s host for making jokes about his wife’s hair loss. We have all been talking about it since.
Ready to launch her book “Worthy,” Jada appeared in an interview with People where she spoke about the incident. She said she hasn’t spoken to the comedian since then, “No, I haven’t talked to Chris.”
She added, “[Do I have] any desire to talk to Chris? Here’s my desire: I just hope that all the misunderstanding around this can be cleared up and that there can be peace,”
She revealed he apologized to her after. “Chris came down to the end of the stage and tried to apologize to me. He said, ‘I didn’t mean you any harm.’ I said, ‘I can’t talk about this now, Chris. This is some old s—.’ I thought this was [about] the Oscar 2016 and … their stuff that they had before I even came into the picture in the late ‘80s. I’ve got to leave that to Will and Chris to talk about, but they got their stuff for sure.”
She also dropped a bombshell, saying he once asked her out, thinking she and Will were getting a divorce. She said,
“Chris, he thought that we were getting a divorce. So he called me, and basically he was like, ‘I’d love to take you out.’ And I was like, ‘What do you mean?’ He was like, ‘Well, aren’t you and Will getting a divorce?’ I was like, ‘No. Chris, those are just rumors.’ He was appalled. And he profusely apologized and that was that.”
Read the full interview here.
