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In an interview with CBS Mornings, the actress discussed her new memoir 'Worthy', and once again described her reaction to the infamous confrontation between Will Smith and Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars.
"That's a really deep subject. I think you've gotta be really careful about the 'why,'" Pinkett Smith said. "That's Will's story to tell. Not mine. So what I will say is that being there with him that night, what I did know, was that I might not have walked in there as his wife, but I left that night as his wife. And as I sit here today, I am going to be by his side, always," she continued, alluding to the recent revelation that she and Smith have been separated since 2016.
The highly criticised altercation came after Rock jokingly compared Pinkett Smith's shaved head to Demi Moore's in G.I. Jane while presenting the award for Best Documentary Feature.
The actress previously said that she assumed the incident was merely a comedy bit for the telecast. "I thought, 'This is a skit,'" Pinkett Smith told PEOPLE last month. "I was like, 'There's no way that Will hit him.' It wasn't until Will started to walk back to his chair that I even realized it wasn't a skit."
Pinkett Smith and Rock costarred in three Madagascar films between 2005 and 2012. She previously revealed to PEOPLE that the comedian had once asked her out on a date amid rumors that she and Smith were divorcing. "He called me and basically he was like, 'I'd love to take you out,'" she recalled. "I was like, 'What do you mean?' He was like, 'Well, aren't you and Will getting a divorce?' I was like, 'No. Chris, those are just rumors.'" She said an "appalled" Rock "profusely apologized and that was that."
Last year, Smith explained that he "lost it" in the heat of the moment during the Oscars. "You just don't know what's going on with people," the actor said on The Daily Show. "And I was going through something that night." Smith also reportedly tried to "make amends" with Rock after the incident.
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