If anybody is aware of how onerous it’s to be the butt of a spouse joke, it’s this man.
O.J. Simpson has weighed in on Will Smith’s now-notorious Oscars 2022 “Hitch” slap, claiming that whereas he thinks the actor was “wrong,” he understood “the sentiment.”
The notorious “Juice” tweeted histhoughts Tuesday in a video that has since gone viral, racking up nearly 900,000 views as of Wednesday morning.
Simpson, 74, was referring to the incident that occurred at Sunday’s Academy Awards, when the 53-year-old “Independence Day” actor, who’d go on to win Best Actor for “King Richard” later within the night, smacked Rock, 57, after the comic made a crack in regards to the shaved head of his spouse, Jada Pinkett Smith, who’s been open about her ongoing battle with alopecia.
“Hey look, it was unfortunate,” mentioned the previous Buffalo Bills working again. “I think Will was wrong.”
Nonetheless, Simpson mentioned he “understood the feeling,” explaining: “In my life, I’ve been through a lot of crap and I was raising two young kids, and every comedian in the country had an O.J. routine, and don’t think I wouldn’t wanna be slapping a couple of those guys.”
The “Naked Gun” actor was doubtless referencing the wisecracks that swirled on “Saturday Night Live,” late-night talk shows and everywhere else in the ’90s throughout his trial for the murders of estranged partner Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman — fees for which he was finally acquitted.
However, at the top of the day, Simpson believes, “You gotta accept that it’s humor.”
“I didn’t even think that [Chris Rock’s joke] was all that egregious,” he mentioned. “I thought it was a semi-unfunny joke.”
In addition, the previous promoting spokesman claimed that if he would’ve pulled the identical stunt as Smith after his 2007 Las Vegas arrest for armed theft, he would’ve been imprisoned for all times with out the opportunity of parole.
Simpson will not be the one A-lister to sentence Smith’s swing at Chris Rock as of late, with different latest superstar critics together with everybody from Jim Carrey to Zoë Kravitz to Amy Schumer.
