Amy Schumer Wouldn’t Have Kicked Will Smith Out of Oscars, However Tells Howard Stern ‘It Was Surprising’

It’s been greater than two weeks since Will Smith stormed the stage on the 2022 Academy Awards to slap comic Chris Rock within the face, however one of many present’s co-hosts, Amy Schumer, nonetheless can’t get it out of her head. “It was stunning and it was a bummer,” Schumer informed Howard Stern on his SiriusXM present on Wednesday morning (April 13), describing the way it felt to see her good buddy and fellow stand-up famous person get bodily assaulted after which berated by Smith after Rock informed a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith‘s hair through the telecast.

Schumer stated that she wouldn’t have thrown Smith out for the incident (“I didn’t have that feeling”), during which the rapper-turned-actor additionally twice shouted “preserve my spouse’s identify out your f—in’ mouth!” on dwell TV after smacking Rock. However after saying that she was made enjoyable of for earlier saying the incident was “traumatizing,” Schumer defined it wasn’t simply stunning to her, but in addition to everybody within the room on the Dolby Theatre that evening. “I don’t suppose it was traumatizing for me, I believe it was traumatizing for all of us… It was upsetting as an individual,” she stated.

And although she counts Rock as one among her closest pals, Schumer stated she additionally frightened that there was maybe one thing extra to Smith’s actions than met the attention. “I simply thought, ‘oh my God Will Smith’… I used to be in an abusive relationship years in the past… I assumed straight away, ‘Oh my God, Will Smith have to be in a lot ache.’ I felt unhealthy for him too. That’s most likely not the proper intuition,” she stated of the actor, who later took the stage and tearfully apologized to the Academy and his fellow nominees, however not Rock, whereas accepting one of the best actor award for his main position in King Richard; a day later Smith apologized to Rock on Instagram.

Schumer additionally acknowledged that the slap took away from a particular second for an additional very shut buddy of hers, Questlove. The Roots drummer accepted one of the best documentary characteristic award for his acclaimed movie Summer season of Soul proper after Smith’s slap threw the printed into chaos. “To see your buddy get hit and, additionally Will smith, who we’ve all liked without end… I haven’t been round a lot violence, it was upsetting for thus many causes… it was stunning and it was a bummer,” she stated, including that as a performer having a video of getting slapped on stage out on this planet without end is a “nightmare.”

Rock has not spoken publicly concerning the incident so far, although he has evenly acknowledged it on his present U.S. stand-up tour and Schumer stated it’s probably not her place to dissect what he buddy is feeling or how he ought to cope with it on stage. She stated she noticed him proper after the slap and so they’ve texted “just a little bit” since then.

When Stern requested her how Rock ought to deal with it comedically on stage, she stated, “he is aware of what he’s doing. I’ve a nasty poker face and I have to share what’s on my thoughts in a compulsive method. However I believe he’s actually sensible. He’s probably not addressing it. He hasn’t spoken publicly about it so I shouldn’t communicate for him. He’s a professional, he’s a sweetheart.”

In an attention-grabbing wrinkle to the story, Schumer dove right into a plot line on her present Hulu sequence, Life & Beth, during which she for the primary time dramatizes her real-life wrestle with a dysfunction she’s battled since childhood: trichotillomania. On the present, her character begins to compulsively pull out her hair, inflicting the younger Amy to develop bald patches on her head that resulted in her having to put on a wig to highschool, which causes ridicule from her classmates.

Schumer informed Stern that the topic of the joke, Pinkett Smith’s bald head — a results of the Crimson Desk Discuss host’s battle with the autoimmune illness alopecia, which causes hair loss — was another excuse she was “triggered” that evening. “It was about Jada’s hair!… , hair loss,” she stated. “Rising up if any individual talked about my hair it was like the most important worry of my life and I’m positive that’s a giant deal for his or her household.”

For the document, she stated, she pre-cleared her jokes about Leonardo DiCaprio’s relationship habits and a Smith bit she did about Hollywood ignoring ladies’s tales for thus lengthy, during which she added, “however this yr we lastly bought a film concerning the unimaginable Williams’ sister’s… dad.” The Academy of Movement Image Arts & Sciences introduced final week that Smith is not going to be permitted to attend any Academy occasions or applications for the subsequent 10 years.