“This is a very important ‘red table talk’ about hair loss. Thousands of people have told me their stories, given my health and what’s going on at the Oscars,” she said on the episode. said in the introduction.
“Now, about Oscar night,” Pinkett Smith said. Starting that night, Smith resigned from the Academy and was banned from the Academy Awards for 10 years; Locke made no public statement about the incident. “My deepest hope is for these two smart, capable people to have the opportunity to heal, talk about this, and reconcile. The state of the world today, we need both,” she continued. “Until then, Will and I will continue to do what we’ve been doing for the past 28 years, which is continue to figure out what this is called living together.”
With that, the “Girls’ Trip” star turned to an emotional conversation with Nicole Ball, whose 12-year-old daughter Leo committed suicide after being bullied at school for alopecia areata, causing her to lose her hair.
Two weeks after Rio’s death, the 94th Academy Awards was broadcast live in Los Angeles. Later that night, Pinkett Smith sat in the front row with her husband as he went on to win an Oscar for his role in “King Richard,” with Rock joking that the actress looked like she was auditioning” GI Jane 2″.
“It’s no joke,” Ball said of his fitness.
Pinkett Smith has been speaking publicly about her battle with the disease since 2018. “What a shame,” she said on Wednesday’s show, which also featured a doctor explaining the situation.
Pinkett Smith will likely address the Oscar controversy and its other far-reaching implications later in the season on her show. Less than a month after the slap, she kicked off the first season premiere of her online talk series with this statement: “Given everything that’s happened over the past few weeks, the Smiths have been focused on deep therapy. When the time calls for it, We will share some of our therapeutic findings at the dinner table.”