Wanda Sykes, during a guest appearance on the March 30 episode of The Breakfast Club, recounted the moment when Will Smith slapped her close friend, Chris Rock, at the 2022 Academy Awards. Sykes was one of the co-hosts at the Awards ceremony alongside Regina King and Amy Schumer.Sykes, at the 5-minute mark of the episode, recounted her March 2022 comment when she called the slap "sickening." Sykes mentioned that she "caught a lot of flak" for claiming that the incident made her "physically ill.""I'm like, y'all got to realize I was working that night. And I watched my coworker get popped at work. “That’s not supposed to happen. I was upset, like, physically upset by that. And then it just even sickened me more watching everybody just sit out there and not react and then to give that man an award afterwards. I was like, ‘I’m done with y’all.’”Wanda Sykes mentioned that Smith later called to apologize to her, but she "didn't even pick up." Wanda Sykes mentioned that she did receive and "accepted" Smith's apology, but implied that she didn't want to continue the conversation.At the 2022 Academy Awards, Chris Rock made an unscripted joke about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith's bald head, which was a result of her alopecia. Smith slapped Rock on-stage as a response to the comment, shortly before he won the Oscar for Best Actor.Following the incident, Smith was banned by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for 10 years."He called" - Wanda Sykes recalls Will Smith's infamous slapThis is not the first time Wanda Sykes has recalled Chris Rock getting infamously slapped by Will Smith at the 2022 Academy Awards. In October 2022, Wanda, in a Variety profile, was asked about the slap. Sykes mentioned that her career moment, co-hosting the Academy Awards, was "overshadowed" by the slap, and that people talked to her about the night, as if she wasn't there.Sykes admitted that Smith did call to apologize at the time,"He called. I had COVID or a bad cold. I just texted to say, 'Hey, I got your message. Thank you. I can’t talk.' But he did call."During an interview with Ellen DeGeneres in March 2022, Wanda claimed that no one apologized to the co-hosts, despite them working "really hard" to put the show together.