Everyone at the Dolby Theater was in for a shock when Hollywood star Will Smith walked up to the stage and slapped comic artiste Chris Rock over his humorous remark on Will's wife Jada Pinkett Smith. The incident took place when Chris was on the stage to present the Oscars for Best Documentary category. Chris started his gig with a few jokes about the audience members, including Pinkett Smith, referring to her as "G.I. Jane" due to her closely cropped hair, Pinkett Smith has spoken in the past about her battle with alopecia.

Moments after the joke, Smith walked to the stage and smacked Rock across the face; however, it was not sure if he connected well. It was unclear if the assault was a planned bit. The uncensored footage of the show had Rock saying, "Will Smith just smacked the shit out of me," as Smith was on his way to his chair. "Wow, dude. It was a G.I. Jane joke." Will got back to his seat and shouted at Rock saying, "Keep my wife's name out of your fucking mouth".

Soon after the incident's footage went viral on the internet and several people reacted to it including Bollywood veteran actress Neetu Kapoor.  Neetu took to her Instagram Stories to share her reaction to the incident. Sharing the viral picture of Will slapping Chris, Neetu wrote, “And they say women can never control their emotions…”

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Varun Dhawan also shared the pic on his Instagram Stories and wrote, “Wow didn't expect that also @chrisrock has a chin.”

Sophie Choudry also reacted to the incident. “Violence is never the way but cracking jokes about someone’s medical condition should not be acceptable either. This was supposed to be a career high for one of my favourite artists for a superb performance. Instead he’ll be remembered for this crazy incident,” she wrote in a tweet.