Tony Rock Says Brother Chris Rock And Will Smith Haven’t Reconciled

Tony Rock, an actor and stand-up comedian who is the younger brother of Chris Rock began fielding several random questions on Twitter, with some about his brother’s recent altercation with Will Smith at the Oscars.

Rock began responding to users’ questions intermittently over several hours yesterday after tweeting out, “20 Questions Tuesday starts now!” He also joked once that he was “just killing time while my food cooks,” by responding to so many questions. While most of the responses were brief and curt one-word phrases, some were still very revealing.

One user asked Rock, “so Diddy was lying when he said Chris and Will made up that night and are good now?” To which the comedian simply responded, “Yep.” Diddy did indeed tell a reporter at the Vanity Fair Oscars party that he had helped quash the beef between the two men.

While other tweets of Rock’s vaguely referred to Smith and the incident, he didn’t divulge that many more details besides a couple of punchy quips. He did also discourage theories that the slap was staged, replying “staged for?” incredulously to one fan who questioned whether the slap was real.

Rock also defended his brother from some who are criticizing him for making the baldness joke. It is disputed whether Rock knew that Pinkett-Smith suffered from alopecia, but his brother claimed that critics have “changed” the narrative around Chris Rock’s view on black women’s hair. Tony cited his brother participating as the subject of the documentary Good Hair, which explored how black American women have viewed and styled their hair throughout history, to show that the comedian has empathy around the subject.

Chris Rock himself has not yet publicly spoken about the event. He was spotted in public for the first time Tuesday in Boston, the first stop of an upcoming comedy tour. Rock will be performing six shows beginning on Wednesday night at The Wilbur Theatre in Boston, so if you want to see if he’ll be talking about the slap there, scalp some tickets!