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Please Enjoy Zoë Kravitz’s Anticlimactic Response To Her Post-Oscars Backlash

Not quite the Notes app apology we expected.

by Reena Gupta  4 April 2022

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Please allow us to make it clear that I will not be opining about whether Zoë Kravitz is a good or terrible person at this time.

However, I will say is that it’s rare to see people go from being completely enamoured by a celebrity to straight-up appalled, so quickly.

It was just a month ago that everyone was tripping over themselves with admiration for the actor, whose photoshoot with Robert Pattinson for Wonderland Magazine prompted Rolling Stone to title a podcast episode ‘Zoë Kravitz and Robert Pattinson are Making America Too Horny’, not to mention the brownie points accumulated from telling a reporter that her version of The Batman‘s Catwoman is bisexual.

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But last week — and I’m sorry to bring this up — Will Smith made headlines for hitting Chris Rock at the Oscars, after the comedian made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s hair. As Pinkett Smith suffers from hair loss due to alopecia, people were divided as to who was in the right. Shouldn’t comedians be held accountable in some way? But what about free speech? Can’t people take a joke? He could have killed him! Violence is never okay — is it?

It was right in the middle of that maelstrom that Kravitz dropped a photo of herself on Instagram captioned: “Here is a picture of my dress at the award show where we are apparently assaulting people on stage now.”

Online sentiment about the actor quickly took a turn for the worst. Suddenly, clips and screenshots on social media emerged of Kravitz raving about Jaden Smith and describing him as her “date” at an event in 2012, when Zoe would’ve been 24 and Jaden just 14, and it didn’t take long for people on Twitter to start calling her a predator. Her ties with Alexander Wang were also scrutinised, given that Wang has faced his own allegations of sexual assault.

Anyway, all this was simply to set you up to enjoy Kravitz’s extremely underwhelming reaction to the backlash in an Instagram Story where she posted a tweet that reads: “Stop taking social media so serious. Nothing here is real. Look at this chicken. It is bigger than the car.”

It wasn’t quite the Notes app apology we were expecting, but fascinating nonetheless. Incidentally, Leo Xander (if that is his real name) seemed to be throughly dismayed by Zoë’s use of his tweet, stating: “I can’t believe [Zoë Kravitz] is using my tweet as her backlash response,” adding that he was going to “throw up”.

So, there you have it folks. We’re not sure what the moral of the story is, but Zoë Kravitz went from hero to zero in just a few short days, and a man might throw up. Who knows what else April will bring?