The King Richard star wrote in an Instagram post that he's 'embarrassed' about the incident.
: Comedian Chris Rock made a joke in poor taste on the Oscars stage about Will Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, being bald as a result of her alopecia. Smithand yelled at Rock: “Keep my wife’s name out of your fucking mouth.” On live television., which felt almost like a scripted moment,
and used his acceptance speech to apologize to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and his fellow nominees. He notably did not apologize to“Jokes at my expense are a part of the job, but a joke about Jada’s medical condition was too much for me to bear and I reacted emotionally,” Smith wrote in an, in which he tagged Rock. “I would like to publicly apologize 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.
Smith added that he also wants to apologize “to the Williams Family and my King Richard Family. I deeply regret that my behavior has stained what has been an otherwise gorgeous journey for all of us. I am a work in progress.”
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