Jada Pinkett Smith was "really worried" about Will Smith on the night he smacked Chris Rock.
The 52-year-old actress was the butt of a joke made by comedian Rock, 58, about her shaven-headed look at the 2022 Oscars and her husband Smith took it upon himself to smack him in the face, but she has now revealed that he told her later that he "meant no harm" with the quip.
Speaking in a preview clip from her upcoming interview with Hoda Kotb, she said: "Chris looks to me and he says, ‘Jada, I meant no harm.'
"I'm just out of it because I'm really worried about Will'. And Will's still talking. Now he’s mad because Chris is talking to me. And I go, ‘Chris, this is about some old s***.’ That’s all I could think of saying, right? And I couldn’t really take in his apology."
The 'Nutty Professor' star previously explained that Rock had approached her to try to make amends but she couldn't talk to him in that moment because she needed to be with her husband.
She told People: "Chris came down to the end of the stage and tried to apologise to me He said, ‘I didn't mean you any harm.’ I said, ‘I can't talk about this now, Chris. This is some old s***. I’ve got to leave that to Will and Chris to talk about, but they got their stuff for sure."
Her comments come just days after it was revealed that despite presenting as a couple to the world, Pinkett Smith - who tied the knot with the former 'Fresh Prince of Bel Air' star in 1997 and has Jaden, 25, and 21-year-old Willow with him - that they been leading separate lives for six years before he sprung to her defence at the Oscars.