Jada Pinkett Smith addresses Will Smith's Oscars slap in new episode of Red Table Talk

Publish Date
Friday, 22 April 2022, 9:28AM

It's the follow up on the 'Will Smith Oscars Moment' we've been waiting for.

Jada Pinkett Smith's Red Table Talk series is back for its fifth season, and has already referenced her husband Will Smith's Oscars slap.

The episode's title card reads, "Considering all that has happened in the last few weeks, the Smith family has been focused on deep healing", reports the New York Post.

"Some of the discoveries around our healing will be shared at the table when the time calls.

"Until then the table will continue offering itself to powerful, inspiring and healing testimonies like that of our incredibly impressive first guest."

The episode then cut to a pre-recorded conversation with Pinkett Smith, her daughter Willow Smith and her mother Adrienne Banfield Norris.

The episode was reportedly taped before the Oscars and included special guest Janelle Monáe. The show did not further reference Smith's attack on actor Chris Rock at the Oscars on March 27.

Following the fallout from the slap, Smith resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Academy's board of directors banned him from all Oscar-related events for 10 years.

This article was originally published on the NZ Herald and republished here with permission and some edits.

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