Bill Maher has advice for Jada Pickett Smith and it's brutal; "It's not leukemia" "just put on a f—ing wig"

The majority of people vilified Will Smith for slapping Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars, “Real-Time” tv host Bill Maher ripped into Jada Pinkett Smith.

Maher, 66, chose to instead go after Jada Pinkett Smith and her situation with alopecia last Friday on his HBO show, downplaying the condition in the opening monologue before aiming again later in the episode.

“I mean, alopecia, it’s not leukemia, OK?” Maher said at the beginning of his show. “Alopecia is when your hair falls out … there are worst things.”

He later doubled down on the topic with guests Andrew Yang and Laura Coates, admitting that he first thought Rock, 57, crossed a line with his “G.I. Jane 2” joke about Pinkett Smith, 50, until he googled alopecia.

“If you are so lucky in life as to have that be your medical problem, just say ‘Thank God,'” he said. “It’s not life threatening. It’s part of — for most people, 80 percent of men, 50 percent of women — it’s part of aging.”

“Aging is, trust me I know, it’s the degradation of the flesh. It happens to all of us. And you know, just put on a f—ing wig like everybody else at the Oscars if it bothers you so much,” Maher added.

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People have taken to Twitter to slam Bill’s ‘seriously insensitive and ignorant comments.

 

 

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