Sure, August Alsina — the singer who was the opposite half of Jada Pinkett Smith’s romantic “entanglement” — watched Chris Rock’s comedy particular. And he thought it was “humorous”.
“August watched the Netflix particular and he laughed,” a supply informed The Submit. “He thought it was not solely humorous however truthful. That was the very best half for him.”
On Saturday, Rock lastly went public together with his ideas on being slapped by Will Smith on the 2022 Oscars, with Selective Outrage, his dwell Netflix comedy particular.
In it, Rock speculated that Smith smacked him not simply over his joke about Pinkett Smith’s baldness (evaluating the actress, who has alopecia, to G.I. Jane), however as a result of Smith was unleashing built-up anger over her affair with Alsina.
“Everyone on the earth referred to as him a bitch,” Rock stated of Smith. “Everyone. Everyone. And who’s he hit? Me. A n — a he know he might beat. That’s some bitch-ass s — t.”
The supply instructed that, in Alsina’s eyes, Rock bought it proper, earlier than sharing new particulars about their four-year affair.
“Lots of people spoke out in opposition to [Alsina],” stated the supply. “So he was completely satisfied to see that Chris Rock appeared to be advocating for the reality and never simply making a joke.”
As Rock crowed about Smith throughout the stand-up particular: “His spouse was f – king her son’s buddy.”
Web page Six beforehand reported that Alsina, now 30, and Pinkett Smith, 51, met in 2015 on the Wire Pageant in London, the place the Smiths’ youngsters, Willow and Jaden, have been performing.
The singer shortly turned a buddy of the household, even vacationing the following yr with the couple and their youngsters in Hawaii.
However rumours started to swirl when Alsina and Pinkett Smith have been photographed wanting loved-up on the 2017 BET Awards.
“Individuals have been speculating,” stated the supply. “And [Will and Jada] have a really distinctive understanding. August was vindicated when he stated he had a dialog with Will. It was a blessing given.”
In June 2020, Alsina informed Angela Yee, host of The Breakfast Membership, that he “sat down with Will and had a dialog because of the transformation from [the Smiths’] marriage to life partnership … he gave me his blessing”.
A couple of days later, Pinkett Smith confirmed the “entanglement” in a dialogue with Smith on her Fb Watch sequence Crimson Desk Discuss — however informed her husband that she didn’t think about it a “transgression” as a result of the couple have been on a break on the time.
“I used to be executed along with your ass,” Will stated on the time.
Wanting again on all of it, the supply informed The Submit, “[Pinkett Smith] positively downplayed a four-year relationship. It was not an entanglement. And that’s what made it so unlucky. [Alsina] didn’t drag them in any interviews. It was not a scandal. It was simply [Alsina] telling his fact and getting his life again.
“He was really getting sick from [the stress of the romance]. Bodily sick.”
Rock appears to imagine that the stress of all of it bought to Smith, too
“Everyone in right here been cheated on. None of us have ever been interviewed by the person who cheated on us, on tv. None of us,” Rock stated throughout his particular.
“Like, ‘Hey, I used to be sucking someone else’s d – ok. How did that make you are feeling?”
This text was initially revealed by the New York Submit and reproduced with permission
