Chris Rock's brother Tony says Will Smith didn't reach out to the comedian after slapping him at the Oscars: 'That wasn't true'

• Chris Rock's brother claims Will Smith lied about reaching out to the comedian after slapping him at the Oscars.
• Smith claimed he tried to call Chris Rock a few days after the incident but couldn't get through.

Chris Rock's brother, Tony Rock, has claimed that Will Smith lied about reaching out to the comedian to apologize for slapping him onstage at last year's Oscars.

During a recent appearance on BigBoyTV, Rock said that Smith, 54, did not call Chris a few days after the incident as the actor previously claimed in a YouTube video posted last July.

"That wasn't true, that wasn't true," Rock said on the radio show. "I think like, two nights later, he said, 'I reached out to Chris, and he didn't want to talk.' That wasn't true."

Tony, who Smith cast in the 2005 romantic comedy "Hitch," added that he's surprised Smith has never reached out to him either.

"He doesn't owe me anything, I just thought we were better than that," he said. "My phone number has never changed. So, I just thought I'd get a phone call one day like, 'Ay, let's just you and I just talk.' It hasn't happened, so I guess it's not going to happen."

Representatives for Smith did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Last month, Chris Rock dropped his new Netflix comedy special, "Chris Rock: Selective Outrage."

In the special, the 58-year-old comedian spoke at length about being slapped by Will after he had made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith's alopecia.

"Y'all know what happened to me, getting smacked by Suge Smith," the comedian joked. "People are like, 'Did it hurt?' It still hurts! I got 'Summertime' ringing in my ear."

"But I'm not a victim baby, you will never see me on Oprah or Gayle crying, you will never see it. Never going to happen," he added. "I took that hit like Pacquiao."

Rock also said that Smith's anger at him was misdirected and should have instead been focused on his wife, who admitted to having an affair in 2020.

"Will Smith practices selective outrage because everybody knows what the fuck happened," Rock said. "I didn't have any entanglements. Will Smith's wife was fucking her son's friend, OK. Normally I would not talk about that shit but for some reason, they put that on the internet."

"We've all been cheated on. None of us have ever been interviewed by the person we cheated on on television. She hurt him way more than he hurt me," he added.