At the 2022 Oscars, Will Smith punched out Chris Rock after he made a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s baldness. What disease does she suffer from?
[Mis à jour le 28 mars 2022 à 11h34] Jada Pinkett Smith unwillingly found herself at the heart of the most memorable streak of the 2022 Oscars. Will Smith’s wife was the subject of a joke from Chris Rock about his baldness. In response, her husband hit the comedian in the face, causing unease in the room. Jada Pinkett Smith’s husband, seated close to the stage, got up and came on stage to slap the comedian. After his gesture, Will Smith exclaimed twice in a row “Keep my wife’s name out of your fucking mouth!” A moment that marked the 2022 Oscars ceremony, in the bad sense of the word.
If Chris Rock’s joke shocked Will Smith so much, it’s probably because it was attacking his wife’s illness. Indeed, in 2018, Jada Pinkett Smith revealed to suffer from alopecia. This disease causes the acceleration of the loss of hair and hair, and pushed the actress to completely shave her head. It is not a fatal disease, but it is indeed an autoimmune disease of the nervous system, a frequent source of baldness in women. Since then, the actress appears regularly on the red carpets proudly displaying her shaved head. Yet it is on this subject that Chris Rock decided to joke during the Oscars ceremony, which did not please Will Smith at all.
Jada Pinkett Smith decided to share her journey with alopecia on social media. On Instagram, she recently explained that she had discovered a line of hair lost above her head and explained how she was going to try to hide it. “Mom is going to put rhinestones on top, it will make me a little crown”. The fact of expressing oneself so freely about this disease also makes it possible to open a dialogue on this subject. Indeed, Jada Pinkett Smith is far from being the only woman to fight against alopecia. A 2016 study giving voice to nearly 5,600 black women found that 47.6% of them experienced hair loss.
While the Hollywood elite gathered at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles on March 27, 2022, several presenters presented the Academy Awards. Called to present the statuette for best documentary film, comedian Chris Rock allowed himself to chain several jokes. He notably targeted actress Jada Pinkett Smith, claiming to be eager to see her in the sequel to Equal Arms, a film where Demi Moore has a shaved head. At this moment of the ceremony, we can clearly see Jada Pinkett Smith rolling her eyes, no doubt tired of this reference to her baldness. A few seconds later, Will Smith gets up from his seat and goes to slap Chris Rock.
Jada Pinkett Smith is an American actress, producer and singer born September 18, 1971 in Baltimore. In her youth, she joined the Baltimore School of Arts and then joined a theater school in North Carolina where she studied for a year before embarking on an acting career. It was first on television that Jada Pinkett Smith made her debut as an actress. We see her briefly in the series 21 Jump Street and Doctor Doogie before she landed her first regular role in Campus Show where she played from 1991 to 1993. The cinema then opened its doors to her, she played in Menace II Society and The Inkwell in 1993 and 1994.
Jada Pinkett Smith played Captain Niobe in the saga Matrix since 2003, and since 2018 in the series Red Table Talk. It has also been seen in Scream 2i Girls trip, The price to pay Where Gotham. In France, she is best known as the wife of Will Smith. The couple, married since 1997, had two children: Jaden Smith and Willow Smith. Jada Pinkett Smith regularly discusses her relationship with the actor in the media.