Everyone is still talking about the biggest moment of the 2022 Oscars when Will Smith, who won Best Actor that evening, got up on stage and slapped presenter Chris Rock in the face after he made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith‘s bald head.
Now, a clip has re-surfaced where Jada actually spoke about her hair and being bald just a few days before the Oscars.
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In the clip, posted to TikTok, Jada said, “Being a Black woman and dealing with hair in Hollywood, in the era I came up in, having your hair look as European as possible was always the thing, and that was really challenging, you know, because I liked my hair out wild and curly.”
“But nobody wanted that, so I always had to do my hair in ways that didn’t feel natural to me because I’m trying to play the game,” she added. “So if I’m doing a cover, everybody’s [like], ‘No, we want your hair straight and flowy,’ when it’s like, ‘All right, cool, but that’s not really what my hair likes to do.’ ”
About her look today, Jada added, “So I had to learn to get the courage to go, ‘Nah, I’m not doing that.’ Which is why I feel the freedom today – I don’t give two craps what people think of this bald head of mine. Because guess what? I love it.”
Find out if Chris‘ joked was planned or not.