The SNL alum said the infamous smack “really affected” Rock, a close friend of hers.
“It made me so infuriated,” Jones said.
“You don’t know that I was going to jump in my car and roll up there.
Leslie Jones, Will Smith, and Chris Rock.Roy Rochlin/Getty Images; Frazer Harrison/Getty Images; Jason Kempin/Getty Images
I was so f—ing mad on so many levels.”
“That s— was humiliating,” Jones said.
“It really affected him.
People need to understand his daughters, his parents, saw that.
He had to go to counseling with his daughters.”
Representatives for Rock didn’t immediately respond to EW’s request for comment Monday.
Jones went on to say that she was upset for a long time after the slap.
“Chris Rock did a f—ing joke,” she said.
“I know Will, too…
I was like, you couldn’t handle that s— afterwards?
This is the Oscars.
The whole world is watching.”
Smith remained at the ceremony andwon Best Actorshortly after.
In the ensuing days, Smithresigned from the Academyandapologized to Rock.
I can not accept the Oscar right now because that was f—ing wrong.'"
“Everybody got pissed off about him doing a special.
That’s what comedians do,” she said.
Thank God we’ve got the stage."
Rock wrote the foreword to the book, which hits shelves Tuesday.
