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Anyone who says words hurt has never been punched in the face- Chris Rock addresses Will Smith’s slap on the night of the Oscars

Chris Rock has spoken on the notorious Will Smith smack he received at the 2022 Academy Awards due to a joke he uttered.

The New Yorker began his tour with Dave Chappelle this week in Liverpool, England at the M&S Bank Arena, and he explained what the slap heard ’round the world was all about.

According to Rock, Smith assaulted him for a joke that could’ve been much worse. “Did that shit hurt? God damn right,” Rock said (via Daily Mail). “The motherfucker hit me over a bullshit joke, the nicest joke I ever told.”

Chappelle had more to say about Smith during the Liverpool show, saying: “Will did the impression of a perfect person for 30 years, and he ripped his mask off and showed us he was as ugly as the rest of us. Whatever the consequences are. … I hope he doesn’t put his mask back on again, and lets his real face breathe. I see myself in both men.”

Chris Rock has spoken of the slap in the past throughout his stand-up acts. The famed comic spoke about how painful it was to take a punch like a champion at a July event in New Jersey.

“Anyone who says words hurt has never been punched in the face,” Rock said., “I’m not a victim. Yeah, that shit hurt, motherfucker. But I shook that shit off and went to work the next day. I don’t go to the hospital for a paper cut.”

Chris Rock had just made a G.I. Jane joke about Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett when the former Fresh Prince of Bel-Air star marched onstage and smacked him right across the face at the awards show.

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