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'Sickened' Jim Carrey calls Hollywood SPINELESS after Will Smith got standing ovation

Jim Carrey said, 'I’d have announced this morning that I was suing Will for 200 million dollars because that video is going to be there forever'

Jim Carrey has spoken out against the controversy over Will Smith's Oscars smack of Chris Rock, claiming that Hollywood is 'spineless en masse.' The Sonic star, 60, told 'CBS This Morning' that he was 'sickened' that Smith was applauded and given a six-minute speech after earning an award following the event, and that if he had been in Rock's place, he would have sued him. Carrey explained, "I was sickened, I was sickened by the standing ovation. I felt like Hollywood is just spineless en masse and it just really felt like this is a really clear indication that we’re not the cool club anymore." Smith should have been jailed after punching Rock on stage, according to Carrey, but the comedian chose not to press charges.

Carrey continued, "he didn’t want the hassle. I’d have announced this morning that I was suing Will for 200 million dollars because that video is going to be there forever, it’s going to be ubiquitous. That insult is going to last a very long time. If you want to yell from the audience and disapprove or show disapproval or say something on Twitter, whatever. You do not have the right to walk up on stage and smack somebody in the face because they said words.”

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When the presenter claimed the incident 'escalated,' Carrey added, “it didn’t escalate, it came out of nowhere because Will has something going on inside him that’s frustrated. I wish him the best, I really do. I don’t have anything against Will Smith, he’s done great things. But that was not a good moment.” “It cast a pall over everybody’s shining moment last night. A lot of people worked really hard to get to that place and to have their moment in the sun, to get their award for the really hard work they did. It is no mean feat to go through all the stuff you have to go through when you are nominated for an Oscar. It’s a gauntlet of devotion that you have to do. It was just a selfish moment that cast a pall over the whole thing.” he remarked. 

Meanwhile, following the incident, Smith issued an apology, claiming that Rock's joke about Jada – a reference to GI Jane 2 due to her hair loss, which is a result of the medical condition alopecia – had made him react 'emotionally,' adding that 'violence in all its forms is poisonous and destructive,' and that 'I am a work in progress.' After Rock made the joke about his wife, the actor stormed the stage and smacked him across the face. Smith's conduct has been denounced by the Academy, which has opened a formal investigation into the event.