While promoting her new book “Worthy,” Jada Pinkett Smith spilled the tea to People about her dynamic with Chris Rock and, of course, the infamous Oscar slap. However, towards the end of her interview, Pinkett Smith dropped a bombshell claim that Rock had once asked her out during one of the many divorce rumor headlines regarding her and Smith. “I think every summer all the reports would come out that me and Will were getting a divorce,” she explained. “And this particular summer, 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.'” Pinkett Smith added that Rock immediately apologized after she denied the rumors. “He was appalled. And he profusely apologized, and that was that,” she said.
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It didn’t take long for the “Set It Off” star’s interview to make waves on social media, with many users contributing Smith’s slap to Rock’s misguided date request. One pop culture enthusiast wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, “So Chris Rock actually deserved that slap lol.” Another person commented, “The slap situation is beginning to make sense.” Pinkett Smith’s People interview came on the same day she revealed her seven-year separation from Smith. “I think we were both kind of just still stuck in our fantasy,” she told Hoda Kotb on TODAY
