ET has obtained exclusive video of Jada Pinkett Smith responding to disparaging comments made by former Fresh Prince of Bel-Air star Janet Hubert with regard to Smith’s Oscars boycott.
Following Smith’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day announcement that she would not attend this year’s ceremony due to the lack of diversity, Hubert posted a video on Facebook, calling Smith’s actions “suspect.”
“I find it ironic that somebody who has made their living, and made millions and millions of dollars from the very people you’re talking about boycotting just because you didn’t get a nomination, just because you didn’t win,” Hubert, who played Aunt Vivian on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, said. “That is not the way life works, baby.”
Now, Smith is calmly addressing the incendiary comments.
“Considering that Alabama had its highest recruitment for the KKK for Martin Luther King’s birthday, I hope that we as African-Americans can find a way to get along and step together,” Smith says. According to the New York Daily News, a Ku Klux Klan chapter distributed recruitment flyers to residents in Mobile, Alabama, over the MLK holiday weekend.
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