brother actor and comic Tony Rock has revealed never contacted the star following
The 48-year-old insisted his side of the story was true despite Will, 54, saying in a video in July he had ‘reached out’ to Chris, 58, but the stand-up was not ‘ready to talk’.
Tony – who Will cast in his 2005 superhero comedy Hitch – told BigBoyTV about Will’s claim: ‘That wasn’t true, that wasn’t true. I think like, two nights later, he said: “I reached out to Chris, and he didn’t want to talk”. That wasn’t true’.
He added he was also surprised Will had never reached out to him either, saying: ‘He doesn’t owe me anything, I just thought we were better than that.
‘My phone number has never changed. So, I just thought I’d get a phone call one day like: “Ay, let’s just you and I just talk”.
‘It hasn’t happened, so I guess it’s not going to happen’.
Tony also said he didn’t see Will slap Chris live as he doesn’t watch the Academy Awards, adding: ‘I don’t support the Oscars, because the Oscars don’t support black movies’.
He said he was instead watching a basketball game when his phone started ‘going crazy’ after Will whacked Chris for comparing his 51-year-old wife Jada Pinkett-Smith’s buzzcut to that sported by Demi Moore in G.I. Jane.
The comedian added: ‘When your phone starts going crazy, as a black person you think… something bad’.
He also said his dad told him: ‘If your brother’s in a fight, you’re in a fight’ so he wanted to come to Chris’ defence.
Tony explained how he told Chris to stay ‘cool’ after the Oscars and said the way the in his recent Selective Outrage Netflix special was ‘genius’ as it was ‘calculated’.
The star blasted A-listers for not helping his brother at the Oscars but comforted Will, adding: ‘Nobody assisted my brother… I saw that Samuel L (Jackson) and Denzel (Washington) comforted Will, but didn’t say anything to my brother’.
It has been reported Chris has never had a ‘one-on-one’ private apology from Will.
An insider told Mail Online in March: ‘Chris never got a one-on-one private apology from Will, only the public one which really meant nothing.
‘Chris wanted to get this out once and for all and be done with it. This was very cathartic to him’.
The day after on the face at the Oscars for joking about his wife Jada’s buzzcut, Will said on Instagram: ‘I would like to apologise to you Chris, I was out of line and I was wrong’.
In July 2022 the actor posted a grovelling video in which he told Chris: ‘I apologise to you. My behaviour was unacceptable and I’m here whenever you’re ready to talk’.
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