Chris Rock right after Will Smith apology video: 'Everybody statements to be a victim'

Heather Hamilton

July 31, 10:29 AM July 31, 10:29 AM

Comedian Chris Rock chided Will Smith just after the "Contemporary Prince" issued an apology for the notorious Oscars slap, saying “everybody is seeking to be a f***ing target.”

The comic resolved the predicament while on his Chris Rock Moi Death earth tour in Atlanta hours following Smith posted an apology video clip that provided the King Richard actor admitting his slap of Rock around a joke about his spouse, Jada Pinkett Smith, was “probably irreparable.”

"Everybody is attempting to be a f***ing target. If all people promises to be a victim, then nobody will hear the authentic victims,” Rock explained Friday night, per CNN. "Even me getting smacked by Suge Smith ... I went to operate the following day, I obtained little ones."

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Rock, who has employed an oblique approach to addressing the feud involving the two stars, later on joked, "Anybody who says text harm has never ever been punched in the facial area."

Smith posted the apology video clip to his personalized YouTube channel Friday. The actor read through and answered many questions he mentioned he experienced acquired.

"I can say to all of you there is no portion of me that thinks that was the appropriate way to behave in that instant,” Smith reported, referring to the slap. “There's no element of me that thinks that is the exceptional way to cope with a emotion of disrespect or insult."

"'I'm sorry' really isn't really adequate," Smith additional. "I am deeply remorseful, and I'm attempting to be remorseful without the need of getting ashamed of myself, suitable? I am human, and I designed a blunder, and I am seeking not to imagine of myself as a piece of s***."

Smith reported he attained out to the Rock to talk about the incident but was told the comedian was not prepared to chat instantly.

As a end result of slapping Rock, Smith has been banned from attending events for the Oscars for 10 several years. Having said that, he could nevertheless be nominated for Academy Awards in the upcoming. Smith left the Academy prior to his ban currently being introduced.