Jada Pinkett-Smith reveals Chris Rock asked her out amid divorce rumors with Will Smith

American actress, Jada Pinkett-Smith, has revealed that popular actor and comedian, Chris Rock once asked her out during summer.

She made this known in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, adding that Chris thought she and husband, Will Smith were getting a divorce at the time.

The mother-of-two, however, said that she clarified to the comic act that it was all rumours and he apologised to her.

Jada said; “I think every summer all the reports would come out that me and Will were getting a divorce. And this particular summer, Chris, he thought that we were getting a divorce. So he called me and basically he was like, ‘I’d love to take you out.’

And I was like, ‘What do you mean?’ He was like, ‘Well, aren’t you and Will getting a divorce?’ I was like, ‘No. Chris, those are just rumors.’ He was appalled. And he profusely apologized and that was that.”

The Hollywood star whose book ‘Worthy’ comes out October 17, also disclosed that she hasn’t spoken to Chris Rock since the Oscars slap incident with Will, but she hopes everyone involved can find “peace.”

She said; “no, I haven’t talked to Chris” since the March 27, 2022, when her husband Will Smith struck him onstage at the Oscars after taking issue with a joke made about Jada.

“[Do I have] any desire to talk to Chris? Here’s my desire: I just hope that all the misunderstanding around this can be cleared up and that there can be peace.

“I talk about this in the book, I think that there might be some misunderstanding between Chris and I as far as the 2016 Oscars. I think that he might’ve taken offense, which I meant no harm in offending. That wasn’t my intention. But I do think that there’s a big misunderstanding there”.