Billy Bush has continued to defend Will Smith after the King Richard star slapped host Chris Rock onstage at the Oscars last month.
On Wednesday, he told TMZ that it would be “crazy, crazy” and “ridiculous” for Hollywood to cast out the box office titan over the shocking event that followed Rock’s joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.
“One moment does not define your life, even one as bad as that,” Bush said. “Let me tell you, what I wrote is we are all wired for some weird, crazy stuff. We’re wired. Ninety-nine percent of the time, we don’t do it. The better us comes out. But we’re wired for it, and occasionally something happens. He snapped. I can’t believe it.”
Bush faced backlash in October 2016, after the Washington Post published video of an unaired 2005 conversation between Donald Trump, then the host of Celebrity Apprentice, and Bush, who was the host of Access Hollywood and a contributor at Today.
