"When he slapped Chris, he slapped me, he slapped all of us"

Rose Rock said she watched from home and initially thought the incident was staged until Smith began to say ‘take my wife’s name out your f–king mouth.’

‘When he slapped Chris, he slapped all of us. He really slapped me.’

Rock said that her son was excited to present the award for Best Documentary Feature to friend Questlove (though Rock couldn’t know that The Roots’ drummer was going to win ahead of time) and that Smith’s actions ruined his speech.

‘No one even heard his speech. No one was able to just be in the moment because everyone was sitting there like, ‘what just happened?’