‘Chris Rock, I’m so sorry, kindly forgive me.’
That’s what I was hoping or.
“I immediately go up to Chris and I said, ‘Did he really hit you?’
Oscars producer Will Packer discusses Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the 94th Academy Awards on ‘Good Morning America.'.ABC
We will go get him.
We’re prepared to get him right now.
you might press charges.
Will Smith slaps Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars.ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images
We can arrest him.’
As they were talking, Chris was being very dismissive of those options.
and he said no.
I didn’t have any conversation with Will.”
“‘Chris Rock doesn’t want that,’ I said.
‘Rock has made it clear that he does not want to make a bad situation worse.’
That was Chris' energy.
Representatives for the Academy also did not immediately respond to EW’s inquiry about Packer’sGMAremarks.
(Pinkett has been open about her struggles with alopecia, which causes hair loss.)
I think these people saw the person that they know and were hoping that somehow, some way….
I don’t think that these were people that were applauding anything at all about that moment.
“I would like to publicly apologize to you, Chris,” Smith wrote on Instagram.
“I was out of line and I was wrong.
I am embarrassed and my actions were not indicative of the man I want to be.
There is no place for violence in a world of love and kindness.”
Watch a portion of Packer’sGood Morning Americainterview above.
