Wanda Sykes Scolds Oscars for Letting Will Smith Stay After Slapping Chris Rock: ‘It Was Gross’
Oscars host Wanda Sykes isn’t happy about that Will Smith Oscar slap either. After her co-host Amy Schumer took to Instagram to shame Smith for his “disturbing” actions on Sunday, Sykes sat down with Ellen DeGeneres to chastise the Best Actor winner for stealing her night.
“I just was like, ‘Is this really happening?’” Sykes recalled of the moment she found out about Smith smacking Chris Rock onstage. “I just felt so awful for my friend Chris. It was sickening. It was absolutely sickening. I physically felt ill. I’m still a little traumatized by it.”
Though she was not at the Oscars on Sunday, DeGeneres felt the need to chime in and say that she, too, felt traumatized by the whole affair. Unfazed by that off-hand remark, Sykes continued to bash Smith, saying it was wrong for the Oscars to let the actor stay at the ceremony after wreaking such havoc.