Like so many other celebrities, Zoe Kravitz decided to weigh in on who was right and who was wrong during the altercation between Will Smith and Chris Rock at the 2022 Academy Awards. The 33-year-old star, however, likely didn’t expect Twitter to turn on her, accusing her of inappropriate behavior toward Will Smith’s son Jaden when he was a teen.
It all started when Kravitz captioned an Instagram picture of her awards dress saying, “Here’s my dress at the show where we are apparently assaulting people on stage now.”
In a second picture, the “Big Little Lies” alum doubled down by saying, “and here is a picture of my dress at the party after the award show -where we are apparently screaming profanities and assaulting people on stage now.”
Instead of agreeing with her take, followers were quick to slam Kravitz for comments she made about Jaden when he was 14 and she was 24. They brought up the 2013 interview in V Magazine in which Kravitz was discussing her thoughts on co-starring alongside the teen in the drama “After Earth.”
“There were moments that I was hanging out with Jaden and thinking, I can’t believe you’re 14, I have to check myself, like what I say to you,” Kravitz said at the time.
“He has so much personality and so much swag, he is so much cooler than I am. And he’s so handsome, I was always like, when you’re older, you know, we’ll hang out…Nope, that’s inappropriate, you’re 14.”
These comments were enough for Twitter users to slam Kravitz as a “hypocrite” who had no right to disparage Will Smith’s slap. It was all surprising considering that the celeb made her comments on Instagram and doesn’t even have a Twitter account.
“I love Twitter for exposing these f-ing hypocrites like Jim Carret [sic], Judd Apatow, Zoe Kravitz,” one person shared, according to Daily Mail. “They want to judge Will Smith (a man who’s been a class act for 30 years) for one mistake, as if they haven’t done worse. Get them all.”
“Zoe Kravitz is also not having a good day. They really should just not even comment. Nobody is perfect. Did they really think their own dirt wouldn’t be brought out too?” someone else chimed in.
A clip of Kravitz saying she brought Jaden Smith as a date to a movie premiere in 2014 also started getting passed around, racking up more than 850,000 views on Twitter, Newsweek reported.
The Extra TV clip features Kravitz telling a reporter of Jaden: “I dragged him out tonight. This is my date.”
The backlash was enough to get Zoe Kravitz’s name trending on Twitter on Wednesday with most of the reactions being negative.
A viral tweet with more than 133,000 likes summed up the situation, saying, “zoe kravitz lost all her twitter hype in just 30 minutes.”
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