Chris Rock says Will Smith Oscar-slammed ‘Hurt’, but he ‘shaken it off’: ‘I’m Not a Victim’

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Getty (2) Chris Rock (L); Will Smith

Chris Rock joked about moving on after his controversial Oscars moment four months ago.

During a stand-up show Sunday with Kevin Hart at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, New Jersey, Rock said, “I’m not a victim, motherf—er,” according to a report from Us Weekly.

The comedian, 57, spoke about the incident in March where Will Smith went on stage at the Oscars and punched Rock in the face after he joked about Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head. (Sure, 50, lives with alopecia.)

“Anyone who says hurtful words has never been punched in the face,” said Rock on Sunday, per Us Weekly. “Yes, it hurt, Grandma… But I shook it off and went to work the next day… I’m not going to the hospital to cut paper.”

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Reps for Rock did not respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

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Neilson Barnard/Getty Chris Rock and Will Smith

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At the ceremony on March 27, before he won for best actor, Will, 53, took to the stage and slammed Rock on live TV after taking issue with the joke about his wife Jada. Will explained in a statement days later that the punchline was “too much for me to bear” and he “reacted emotionally.”

Will, who later resigned from the academy and was banned from attending their ceremonies for the next 10 years, said in his statement: “I want to publicly apologize to you Chris. I was out of line and I was wrong. I is embarrassed and my actions were not indicative of the man I want to be. There is no place for violence in a world of love and kindness.”

In the post-Oscars era, Rock has made short stand-up jokes that reference the moment, but he has yet to talk about it at length. He has said he will “talk about it at some point” eventually.

Jada addressed the incident on the June 1 episode of her Facebook Watch show Red Table Talkand said: “On Oscar night: My deepest hope is that these two intelligent, capable men have an opportunity to heal, talk this out and reconcile.”

“With the state of the world today, we need them both, and indeed we all need each other more than ever,” the actress continued. “Until then, Will and I continue to do what we’ve been doing for the last 28 years – and that is [to] keep figuring out this thing called life together.”

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Meanwhile, Rock and Hart, 43, recently wrapped up their five-date joint comedy tour, titled Rock Hart: Only headliners allowedwith a show in Brooklyn, New York, on Monday.

Near the end of their Saturday show at New York City’s Madison Square Garden—where they were also joined by Dave Chappelle—Hart surprised Rock onstage with a goat, in a nod to Hart, deeming the latter the goat (the greatest of all time).

In one moment from the show, Chappelle, 48, asked Rock, “What are you going to call this goat, Chris?”

“The name is Will Smith,” Hart replied as the audience laughed.

But in all seriousness, “[Chris is] my goat — he’s my guy,” Hart told Jimmy Fallon on Monday The Tonight Show, and recalls the memorable moment. “And I wanted him to feel that and experience the world of understanding how I feel about him in front of that audience.”

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