The following month, the Academy announced that Smith would beryllium barred from attending the show for the adjacent decade.

"During our telecast, we did not adequately code the concern successful the room. For this, we are sorry," Academy President David Rubin and CEO Dawn Hudson shared successful a connection past year. "This was an accidental for america to acceptable an illustration for our guests, viewers and our Academy household astir the world, and we fell short—unprepared for the unprecedented."

They said the prohibition was a "step toward a larger extremity of protecting the information of our performers and guests, and restoring spot successful the Academy." (This year, the Academy enactment unneurotic a "crisis team" to assistance navigate aboriginal shows.) 

Smith said at the time that helium "accepts and respect the Academy's decision."

As for Rock, helium recently shared much of his thoughts connected the debacle, explaining in his Netflix special Chris Rock: Selective Outrage why he didn't person a greater absorption connected signifier that night.

"A batch of radical like, ‘How travel you didn't bash thing backmost that night?'" he said on the show, released March 4. "Cause I got parents. Cause I was raised. You cognize what my parents taught me? Don't combat successful beforehand of achromatic people."

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