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Jada Pinkett Smith went straight to the infamous Oscar night slap during an episode of “Red Table Talk” on Wednesday.
Two months after her husband, Will Smith, hit comic book Chris Rock to make a joke about Pinkett Smith’s shaved head during the Academy Awards broadcast, the actress used “the moment” on her influential Facebook Watch program to shed light on the autoimmune disease that caused your hair loss.
“This is a very important ‘red table talk’ about alopecia. Given what I’ve been through with my health and what happened at the Oscars, thousands of people have contacted me with their stories,” he said. say in an introduction to the episode.
“Now, about Oscar night,” Pinkett Smith said. Since that night, Smith has resigned from the academy and was banned from attending the Oscars for 10 years; Rock has not made any public statements about the incident. “My deepest hope is that these two intelligent and capable men will have the opportunity to heal, talk and reconcile. The current state of the world, we both need them,” he continued. “Until then, Will and I have been doing what we’ve been doing for the last 28 years, and that’s continuing to discover this thing called life together.”
And with that, the star of “Girls Trip” went on to have an emotional conversation with Nicole Ball, whose 12-year-old daughter, Rio, committed suicide after being harassed at school for her alopecia areata. which made her lose her hair.
Two weeks after Rio’s death, the 94th Academy Awards were broadcast live from Los Angeles. Pinkett Smith and her husband, who would win the Oscar for her role in “King Richard” later that night, sat in the front row as Rock joked that the actress appeared to be auditioning for “GI Jane 2 “.
“It’s not a joke,” Ball said of the illness.
Since 2018, Pinkett Smith has made public her struggles with the disease. “There was so much shame,” he said on Wednesday’s program, that he also had a doctor explain the illness.
Pinkett Smith will likely address the Oscars controversy and its other far-reaching effects later this season on its show. Less than a month after the slap, he opened the season premiere of his series of online conversations with this statement: “Given everything that has happened in recent weeks, the Smith family has focused in the deep healing. Some of the discoveries surrounding our healing will be shared at the table when the time comes. “