This is the first time he has talked about it so explicitly. Chris Rock, slapped in the middle of the Oscar ceremony last March by Will Smith for a bad joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head, evoked the event for the first time during a show in New Jersey.

“Those who say words hurt have never been punched in the face,” he said, adding: “I am not a victim. Yeah, that shit hurt me. But I got rid of that shit and went to work the next day. don’t go to the hospital for a paper cut.”

“Still Digesting”

The comedian, whose tickets to his stand-up show sold out after the incident, never actually commented on it.

“I don’t have much to say about what happened, so if you did hear that, I have a whole show I wrote before this weekend,” he said during a show in Boston, his first public appearance since the slap. at the end of March.

“I’m still digesting what happened. So at some point I’m going to talk about this shit. And it’s going to be serious and funny,” added the comedian.

Following this coup, Will Smith announced his resignation from his position as a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He was also banned from participating in ceremonies for 10 years.