EXCLUSIVE: Chris Rock wants Jada Pinkett Smith to ‘keep HIS name out of HER mouth’ and ‘hates’ that he keeps being dragged into her and Will Smith’s scandals – as she makes shock claim that the comedian asked her out

Chris Rock is deeply ‘frustrated’ at being dragged into Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith’s ongoing marital drama, with insiders claiming he’d prefer the actress kept his name out of her mouth as she continues to promote her tell-all book promote.

The comedian, 58, was famously slapped across the face by Will live on stage at last year’s Academy Awards after making a ‘GI Jane’ joke about Jada’s bald head – not long after she revealed she was on alopecia does not suffer.

Now the stand-up comic has been dragged back into their troubled relationship after the Girls Trip actress, 52, claimed Chris once asked her out on a date when she and Will were previously at the center of divorce rumours.

‘Chris said his piece on the whole Will Smith thing, but now with these new revelations from Jada that she and Will have been living separate lives, it’s just another WTF moment in the whole saga of the past few years between Chris, her, and Will,’ a source exclusively told DailyMail.com.

‘Chris hates that she keeps bringing it up and the other revelations about Chris asking her on a date and all that.

‘He’s a relatively private person and just got to a point where maybe people started to move on, but now it’s back in the spotlight, and it’s just frustrating that everything is coming to the fore again.’

The insider added: ‘Chris is over it and would actually love for her to keep his name out of her damn mouth.’

Will told Chris to ‘keep my wife’s name out of your f*****g mouth’ – before winning best actor on the night for his role in King Richard.

Representatives for Chris, Jada and Will did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

Jada, who said she was shocked that he referred to her as his ‘wife’, claimed that after Chris made the joke, he leaned over to her to apologize – further infuriating Will.

Explaining the fallout, she said: ‘Will is still talking because now he’s angry because Chris is talking to me, and I’m like, “Chris, it’s about an old thing.” That’s all I could think to say. It’s not him at all.’

Chris’ annoyance comes after he was photographed in Paris for a second time in the wake of the fallout from Jada’s two explosive interviews. Dressed in a brown jumper and cream trousers, the comic appeared to be deep in conversation on his phone as he walked around the capital.

Jada revealed that she quietly split from Will seven years ago and claims Chris once called her to shoot his shot.

“I think every summer all the reports will come out that Will and I are getting divorced,” Jada told People. ‘And this particular summer, Chris, he thought we were going to divorce.

‘So he called me and basically he was like, “I’d like to take you out.” And I was like, “What do you mean?” He was like, “Well, aren’t you and Will going to divorce?” I was like, “No, Chris, it’s just rumours.

‘He was shocked. And he apologized profusely and that was it.’

Jada also addressed the Oscars bash, revealing that she hasn’t spoken to Chris since.

‘(Do I) have any desire to talk to Chris? Here’s my wish: I just hope that all the misunderstandings about this can be cleared up and that there can be peace,” she told the publication.

“I talk about this in the book, I think there could be a misunderstanding between me and Chris as far back as the 2016 Oscars.

‘I think he may have taken offence, which I meant no harm to offend. It was not my intention. But I do think there is a big misunderstanding there.’

In 2016, Jada called for a boycott of the awards ceremony after no actors of color were recognized in the main categories.

Chris, who was hosting, joked about Jada in his opening monologue, telling the audience: ‘Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna’s panties. I’m not invited!’

He claimed in his Netflix special earlier this year that the Gotham actress insisted he leave the gig in a show of solidarity.

Jada shocked fans this week when she revealed the truth about her relationship with Will, whom she married in 1997.

Speaking to Hoda on the Today Show on Wednesday, she explained why their union broke up, revealing: ‘By the time we got to 2016, we were just tired of trying. I think we were both still stuck in our fantasy of what we thought the other person should be.’

Jada – who admitted to having an affair with singer August Alsina in 2020 – said she considered a legal divorce but was never able to go through with it, and openly revealed that she made a ‘promise’ to her man made that she would never give him. a ‘reason’ for divorce.

“We’ll work through whatever,” she added. “And I just couldn’t break that promise.”

“But you still live apart?” Hoda probed and asked Jada to confirm, ‘We live separately’.

In a separate interview with People, she admitted they were, in fact, living apart when her husband Chris clapped at the Oscars.

She also noted that no permanent decisions have been made about the future of their marriage, explaining that she and Will are ‘still figuring it out’.

“We did a lot of hard work together,” she said. “We just found deep love for each other and we’re going to find out what that looks like.”

The couple are parents to son Jaden (25) and Willow (22).