Chris Rock addressed the Oscars smack at his sold-out Baltimore gig on Friday. Rock briefly mentioned the uncomfortable Will Smith meeting after weeks of silence before starting his act.
A local news station interviewed Rock's mother, Rosaline "Rose" Rock, about the incident. “When Will slapped Chris, he slapped us all, but he really slapped me,” said the matriarch. “Hurt my child, hurt me.”
She called the Oscar ban insufficient given the Smiths don't attend every year. She believed Smith's apology was insincere.
Rose lamented that he never apologized. “His people wrote, ‘I apologize to Chris Rock,’ but something like that is personal. You extend.”