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Telling the audience that Smith’s bangs made him hear “Summer time ringing in my ears”, Rock blamed Pinkett Smith’s “entanglements” for the actress’ outburst.
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“His wife was having an affair with his son’s friend. I wouldn’t normally talk about this… But for some reason, [they] put that s— on the Internet. We have all been deceived. Everyone in here has been duped. None of us have ever been interviewed by the person who tricked us on TV. ‘Hey, I sucked someone’s d—. How did that make you feel?'” Rock said, referring to the couple’s decision to publicly address infidelity in their relationship on a Red Table Talk episode.
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In 2020, Jada confessed to an “entanglement” with the R&B singer in 2015 when she and Will briefly separated.
“We were over. From there, as time went on, I got into a different kind of entanglement with August,” she continued Red Table Talk.
Smith, who appeared with his wife, said the breakup of their marriage was necessary so they could both “figure out how to be happy.”
“I agree (with Jada). If you look up the definition of ‘entanglement’, it’s a complex and difficult relationship. It was exactly that,” the 30-year-old explained.
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“But I definitely have to agree that it’s an entanglement. It was definitely something complicated, a complicated dynamic.”
In a separate interview with Breakfast Club host Angela Yee, Alsina said he had “literally never been in love” before meeting Jada.
Since the special aired, Rock has been accused of being “obsessed” with Jada.
The insider went on to add that Rock’s beef with the actress stemmed from her criticism of his hosting of the 2016 Oscars after she helped lead the #OscarsSoWhite campaign over the lack of nominees of color, including Will’s performance in Concussion.
“Back in 2016, she helped start a movement with the Academy Awards by asking why there are so few Black members, and Chris took it to this?”
In his special, Rock addressed the jokes he made at Will and Jada’s expense at the 2017 Oscars.
“I made some jokes about her. Who gives af—? That’s how it is. She starts it, I finish it,” Rock said. “That’s what the f— happened … She started this s—.”