Award-winning comedian and actress Amy Schumer has addressed recent criticism over her “triggered and traumatized” comment regarding the 2022 Oscars Slap incident.
During an interview on a recent episode of The Howard Stern Show, Schumer said she was fully aware of the criticism.
“[The 2022 Oscars Slap incident] was so upsetting. People made fun of me for saying it was traumatizing, but I don’t think it was traumatizing for me. I think it was traumatizing for all of us.”
Schumer initially made a now-deleted Instagram statement on Mar. 30, expressing how uncomfortable she felt about the award show ordeal which went down on Mar. 27. During the Oscars ceremony that evening, Oscar Award-winning actor Will Smith smacked Emmy Award-winning comedian Chris Rock after the funnyman ridiculed Smith’s wife, actress Jada Pinkett-Smith’s bald head. Pinkett-Smith recently revealed that she shaved her head due to alopecia.
“But for real. Still triggered and traumatized. I love my friend @chrisrock and believe he handled it like a pro…the whole thing was so disturbing. So much pain in @willsmith anyway. I’m still in shock and stunned, and sad,” the 40-year-old wrote.
Immediately after she uploaded her post, social media users slammed her for her statement.
She further explained why she said it during her latest appearance, saying Rock has been one of her best friends, making it difficult to see Smith slap him on stage.
“Chris Rock is my good friend, like one of my best friends,” Schumer said. “So, to see…your friend get hit…and then and also Will Smith—who I’ve loved, and we’ve all loved forever—like I’ve I don’t remember a time I didn’t think, ‘I love that guy.'”
She added that she didn’t grow up around “violence,” so she was shocked about the whole situation.
“I haven’t been around much violence. I didn’t grow up with it in the home or anything. It was shocking. And it was a bummer.”
The New York native also described the 2022 Oscars slap as a “f*****g bummer” at her Amy Schumer & Friends comedy show at The Mirage Theater in Las Vegas on Apr. 2.
“All I can say is that it was really just sad. It says so much about race, about toxic masculinity, it’s just, everything. It was just really upsetting,” she told the audience.
