‘About Oscar night’: Jada Pinkett Smith hopes Will Smith and Chris Rock can ‘heal’
LA TimesNot long after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the 94th Academy Awards, Jada Pinkett Smith promised that some of her family’s “discoveries around. On Wednesday, Jada Pinkett Smith welcomed members of the alopecia community to her Facebook Watch series “Red Table Talk” after that Oscars moment sparked fervent discussions about the hair-loss condition she suffers from. “I’m using this moment to give our alopecia family an opportunity to talk about what it’s like to have this condition and to inform people about what alopecia actually is.” Before Will Smith walked onto the Oscars stage and smacked Rock in the face, the comedian made a joke comparing Pinkett Smith’s shaved head to Demi Moore’s hairstyle in the 1997 film “G.I. And that’s keep figuring out this thing called life together.” After addressing the Oscars scandal of it all, Pinkett Smith opened up about the “shame around having alopecia” while telling daughter Willow Smith and mother Adrienne “Gammy” Banfield-Norris some of the personal challenges she has faced since getting diagnosed with the condition in 2018.