A woman with alopecia who appeared in Chris Rock's 'Good Hair' documentary slams him for 'publicly disrespecting' Jada Pinkett Smith at the Oscars

• Sheila Bridges told TMZ that she is "disappointed" by Chris Rock's "G.I. Jane" joke.
• Bridges appeared in Rock's 2009 documentary where she spoke about her challenges of living with alopecia.

A woman with alopecia who appeared in Chris Rock's "Good Hair" documentary told TMZ that she was "disappointed" that the comedian decided to joke about Jada Pinkett Smith's condition at the Oscars.

During Rock's speech to present the best documentary feature, the comedian made a "G.I. Jane" joke in reference to Pinkett Smith's bald head. The "Red Table Talk" host has previously opened up about having alopecia, an autoimmune condition that causes the immune system to attack hair follicles.

In response, her husband Will Smith slapped Rock onstage. He then returned to his seat and shouted, "Keep my wife's name out of your fucking mouth!"

Sheila Bridges, who previously spoke with Rock about living with alopecia for his 2009 documentary, "Good Hair," reacted to the joke while being interviewed by TMZ on Monday.

She said she was "a little bit surprised" that Rock made the jest after talking to her "at great length" about the challenges of the condition.

The interior designer condemned both stars' actions, saying both the joke and altercation "helped reinforce stereotypes about Black people."

"The first stereotype is about Black women. That Black women can be or should be disrespected in public and that we are so strong that nothing bothers us, nothing hurts us. That we have this impenetrable armor and we're never to be protected," she said. "When Chris Rock made the joke about Jada Pinkett Smith's hair, or bald head, to me he was publicly disrespecting yet another Black woman."

"And then Will Smith reacts by playing back into this stereotype about Black men, you know, being violent, not being able to sort of control themselves," she continued. "So I just feel like it was bad behavior all the way around."

On Monday, Bridges shared a clip on her Instagram page of herself speaking to Rock for "Good Hair."

In the caption, she wrote: "While I do not condone violence (or what Will Smith did), I am not completely surprised that Chris Rock got rocked by Will Smith after making the medical condition of @jadapinkettsmith part of his comedic schtick- disrespecting her publicly."

"Shame on you @chrisrock Didn't we sit down and talk at length about how painfully humiliating and difficult it is to navigate life as a bald woman in a society that is hair obsessed? As if life isn't challenging enough out here as an unprotected black woman?" she wrote.

Many celebrities and comedians have weighed in on the altercation after it took place on Sunday night. A few days after the Oscars, Pinkett Smith shared her first social media post, which seemingly responded to the incident. She shared an Instagram post that said, "This is a season for healing and I'm here for it."

During his first comedy show since the incident on Wednesday night, Rock said he was "still processing what happened."

Smith has apologized for the slap both at the ceremony and publicly through a statement on Instagram.

However, the Academy said that it does not "condone violence" and has launched a formal investigation. In a new letter to its members, obtained by Variety, the Academy leadership said the review will take a "few" weeks to complete.