Jada Pinkett Smith, 52, admitted she felt Will Smith slapping Chris Rock on the 2022 Academy Awards turned out to be a “constructive” factor, in a brand new interview with Every day Mail. The actress, who just lately revealed she and the actor, 55, separated seven years in the past, stated she felt the daring and now notorious transfer “saved” their marriage, regardless of all of the controversy that adopted. She additionally revealed she virtually didn’t go to the occasion.

“I almost didn’t even attend the Oscars that 12 months, however I’m glad I did,” Jada informed the outlet. “I name it the ‘holy slap’ now as a result of so many constructive issues got here after it.”

“That second of the s**t hitting the fan is if you see the place you actually are,” she continued. “In spite of everything these years attempting to determine if I would depart Will’s aspect, it took that slap for me to see I’ll by no means go away him. Who is aware of the place our relationship could be if that hadn’t occurred?”

In the course of the Oscars’ stay ceremony, Will received up on stage to slap host Chris after he made a joke about Jada’s shaved head. Within the joke, he in contrast her to Demi Moore’s character, who additionally had a shaved head, within the 1997 movie GI Jane. “Preserve my spouse’s title out your f***ing mouth,” May also shouted to Chris through the second of the slap.

Jada’s newest feedback about her marriage with Will come simply a few months after she made comparable statements to Selection. “After the Oscars, that’s after we did some actually deep work collectively,” she informed the outlet on the time. “I used to be like, ‘I’m driving with you. I didn’t come into this place as your spouse, however I’m leaving right here as your spouse as a result of we received a storm we’re going to should take care of collectively. I’m not gonna go away your aspect.’”

Will and Jada had been married in 1997 and share two youngsters, together with son Jaden, 25, and daughter Willow, 23, collectively. They first publicly revealed their 2016 separation. “By the point we received to 2016, we had been exhausted with attempting,” Jada informed NBC Information in October. “I feel we had been each form of nonetheless caught in our fantasy of what we thought the opposite individual must be.”