O.J. Simpson: ‘I understand’ why Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at Oscars

If anybody is aware of how laborious 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 “incorrect,” he understood “the sentiment.”

The notorious “Juice” tweeted histhoughts Tuesday in a now-viral video with practically 900,000 views as of Wednesday morning.

Simpson, 74, was referring to the incident that occurred on the Sunday’s Academy Awards, when the 53-year-old greatest actor winner for “King Richard” smacked Rock, 57, for cracking a divisive bald joke about his spouse Jada Pinkett- Smith, who’s been open about her ongoing wrestle with alopecia.

“Hey look, it was unlucky,” mentioned the previous Buffalo Payments working again. “I feel Will was incorrect.”

Nonetheless, Simpson mentioned he “understood the sensation,” explaining: “In my life, I’ve been by means of loads of crap and I used to be elevating two younger children, and each comic within the nation had an O.J. routine, and don’t assume I wanna be slapped a few these guys.”

The “Bare Gun” actor was possible referencing the wisecracks that swirled on “Saturday Evening Stay,” late-night discuss reveals and all over the place else within the ’90s throughout his trial for the murders of estranged partner Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman — fees for which he was ultimately acquitted.

Nevertheless, on the finish of the day, Simpson believes “you gotta settle for that it’s humor.”

“I didn’t even assume that [Chris Rock’s Joke] was all that egregious,” he mentioned. “I assumed it was a semi-unfunny joke.”

As well as, 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 potential for parole.

Simpson will not be the one A-lister to sentence Smith’s Chris Rocking of late with different current superstar critics together with everybody from Jim Carrey to Zoe Kravitz and Amy Schumer.

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