Cher had the most memorable response to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars

Will Smith slapping Chris Rock on stage at the Oscars last night is what everyone is talking about after the awards ceremony… everyone except for Cher, apparently.

Cher told her followers that she actually missed the incident while watching the Oscars last night. Rock was presenting the award for Best Documentary (Feature) and he made a joke comparing actor Jada Pinkett Smith, who is married to Will Smith, to actor Demi Moore in G.I. Jane, where Moore shaved her head.

Related: Unsuspecting couple met Cher at the movies & had no idea until she posted their pic on Twitter

Pinkett Smith has alopecia, an autoimmune disease that can result in hair loss.

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Smith went on stage to confront Rock and slapped him. He went back to his seat and shouted, “Keep my wife’s name out of your f**king mouth” and stayed through the rest of the ceremony.

The incident is sure to dominate mainstream media discourse for at least the next week, so it wasn’t a surprise that some people thought Cher’s tweet at the end of the Oscars was about Smith and Rock.

“OH WHAT A NIGHT,” she wrote. “IM SO SO SO HAPPY.”

She got quite a few responses from people who assumed she was talking about the incident between Smith and Rock.

But… Cher said that she wasn’t referring to Smith and Rock at all. In fact, she said that she didn’t even see the slap and called either Smith or one of her commenters a “dips**t.”

That didn’t stop people from criticizing her, apparently.

“Haters FK U,” she later tweeted. “Everyone Is So Ready To Pounce. Does Anyone In Their Right Mind Think ‘I’ WOULDN’T HAVE SAID SOMETHING HAD I KNOWN (Me Of All Ppl).”

Rock refused to file a police report about the attack.