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Actress Jada Pinkett Smith broke her silence Wednesday on husband Will Smith’s actions on the Academy Awards.

This comes two months after Smith walked onstage in the course of the awards ceremony and slapped comic Chris Rock within the face over a joke Rock made about Pinkett Smith’s baldness. Within the newest episode of Pinkett Smith’s Purple Desk Discuss present, she addressed the illness that has precipitated her hair loss: alopecia.

“It is a actually vital Purple Desk Discuss on alopecia. Contemplating what I’ve been by way of with my very own well being and what occurred on the Oscars, 1000’s have reached out to me with their tales,” Pinkett Smith mentioned. “I’m utilizing this second to present our alopecia household a possibility to speak about what it’s wish to have this situation and to tell folks about what alopecia really is.”

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Pinkett Smith went on to name each Rock and her husband “clever, succesful males” with “a possibility to heal, speak this out, and reconcile.” Smith later apologized to Rock in an Instagram put up. Rock refused to press fees in opposition to Smith after the incident.

“The state of the world at this time, we’d like them each. And all of us really need each other greater than ever,” Pinkett Smith mentioned of the 2 males. “Till then, Will and I are persevering with to do what we now have finished for the final 28 years, and that’s hold determining this factor referred to as ‘life’ collectively,” she continued. “Thanks for listening.”

Afterward within the episode, Pinkett Smith and daughter Willow interviewed Adrienne Banfield-Norris, the mom of a 12-year-old daughter with alopecia who died by suicide.

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On account of the slap, Smith was banned from the Oscars for a decade.