Sheila Bridges slammed Chris Rock for being insensitive about alopecia after clip of his documentary was launched.
Alaric S. Campbell by way of AP
A girl, who starred in a 2009 documentary specializing in the lives of girls with alopecia — funded by Chris Rock himself — is indignant with the comic for the joke that resulted in a slap from Will Smith.
Moments after the comedian made the “G.I. Jane” joke, a clip surfaced from Rock’s 2009 documentary “Good Hair” exhibiting the comic with inside designer Sheila Bridges, 57, who particulars her struggles with alopecia, stories the Los Angeles Occasions.
The clip exhibits Chris Rock sitting subsequent to Bridgers, who talks about how she by no means felt the necessity to put on a wig after dropping her hair.
“I selected to not put on a wig for quite a few causes. It’s this sense about someway hiding and I by no means needed to really feel as if I used to be hiding one thing,” Bridges mentioned within the 2009 interview.
“I needed to take care of type of accepting who you might be and looking out within the mirror and looking out as if you’re stunning.”
Sheila Bridges posted the clip on Instagram on Tuesday exhibiting help for Jada Pinkett-Smith whereas slamming Chris Rock for forgetting the dialog and being insensitive.
“Whereas I don't condone violence (or what Will Smith did), I'm not fully shocked that Chris Rock received rocked by Will Smith after making the medical situation of @jadapinkettsmith a part of his comedic schtick — disrespecting her publicly,” Bridgers wrote on Instagram.
“Disgrace on you @chrisrock. Didn’t we sit down and speak at size about how painfully humiliating and troublesome it's to navigate life as a bald girl in a society that's hair obsessed? As if life isn’t difficult sufficient out right here as an unprotected black girl?”
Will Smith, 53, apologized to Chris Rock on Monday for his “unacceptable and inexcusable” conduct.
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