Speakingexclusively with PEOPLEat the Governor’s Ball, Haddish described her highlight of the evening.
“When I saw a Black man stand up for his wife.
That meant so much to me.
Tiffany Haddish at the 2022 Oscars.Photographs @adrienneraquel
And that meant the world to me,” Haddish said.
“And that’s their friend,” Haddish said of Rock.
“As a friend, why would you do that?
He didn’t even fire off the joke by her, but she was hurt, though.
If she wouldn’t have been hurt, he probably wouldn’t have said nothing.
But you could see he was clearly … And they exploited it.
They exploited her, so …
He protected his wife.
You better put that in your magazine!
That’s what I told her.”
