Amy Schumer Was ‘Made Fun of’ for Will Smith, Chris Rock Reaction

Working with her very own backlash. Amy Schumer has been candid about her honest response to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars, but some haven’t appreciated it.

“It was so upsetting,” the 94th yearly Academy Awards cohost, 40, explained to Howard Stern on Wednesday, April 13, about the onstage incident — throughout which Smith, 53, smacked Rock, 57, across the deal with for generating enjoyment of Jada Pinkett Smith.

“People made fun of me for stating that it was traumatizing, but I really do not imagine it was traumatizing for me,” the Lifetime & Beth star elaborated. “I believe it was traumatizing for all of us.”

Schumer — who cohosted the Oscars on March 27 with Wanda Sykes and Regina Hall — tweeted on March 30 that she was “still brought on and traumatized” by the violence inflicted on the Every person Hates Chris alum by the King Richard star. (Immediately after slapping Rock for the comedian’s joke about Pinkett Smith’s shaved head — the Purple Table Communicate host has alopecia — Smith yelled at the South Carolina indigenous, twice, to “keep my wife’s name out your f—king mouth.”)

The Within Amy Schumer alum advised Stern, 68, about how the altercation overshadowed Questlove‘s earn for Very best Documentary Element for Summer season of Soul, which Rock was presenting at the time. “Chris Rock’s my fantastic pal. Questlove is a single of my best close friends. We’re close. To see that occur, to see your buddy get hit” was tricky for her to witness, she spelled out.

Schumer noted that the “trauma” of watching Smith slap Rock was also so tricky simply because the Refreshing Prince of Bel-Air alum is an individual “who I have loved — who we’ve beloved without end … I do not recall a time I did not think, ‘I appreciate that dude,’” she stated, reasoning that the Ali actor “must have been in so a great deal pain” to hit the Saturday Evening Reside alum.

“It was upsetting for so a lot of factors and it was upsetting to everybody. [To] everyone at dwelling who did not even see what I noticed,” she explained to the radio host. “It was surprising, and it was a bummer.”

Smith — who gained the best actor Oscar later that night for his effectiveness as Richard Williams in King Richard — is at the moment enduring rigorous fallout right after the altercation.

The Pursuit of Happyness actor publicly apologized to Rock — as effectively as the Academy of Movement Photo Arts and Sciences, all audience associates, viewers and the producers of the present — one particular working day soon after the ceremony, calling his habits “unacceptable and inexcusable.”

Four days later on, Smith resigned from the Academy. The board declared on Friday, April 8, that the “Miami” rapper is banned from the Oscars and all associated Academy gatherings for 10 decades.

“I take and respect the Academy’s final decision,” the 7 Lbs actor instructed Site 6 in a assertion at the time.

For his aspect, Rock, who declined to file a police report about the slap, has alluded to the incident in a number of of his standup routines given that.

In accordance to an eyewitness, the Longest Lawn star explained to a heckler “no” when they yelled, “F—k Will Smith” throughout Rock’s March 31 set in Boston. Two times afterwards, an viewers member disclosed that the comic joked that he “had an fascinating week” through his regime in New Jersey.

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