In a Friday interview with WIS-TV’s “Soda City Live,” South Carolina native Rose Rock said she was watching the March 27 awards ceremony on TV when Smith, apparently enraged by Rock’s “G.I.
She said she initially believed the confrontation was staged but changed her mind when Smith began to use “obscenities,” WIS reported.
Smith returned to the stage later to accept the best actor Oscar.
I am embarrassed and my actions were not indicative of the man I want to be.
“I feel really bad that he never apologized,” the mother of 10 told the TV station.
Rock declined to file a police report following the incident, the Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement last month.
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