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Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Actress Continues to Rip Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith Over Oscars: "They Are Such Pretenders"

Jada Pinkett Smith's powerful video [1] explaining her decision to boycott the Oscars due to the Academy's blatant lack of diversity within this year's nominees [2] was well-received by many, but The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air [3] actress Janet Hubert was not a fan. Janet, who is best known for playing Aunt Vivian on the popular '90s sitcom, uploaded a scathing video testimonial of her own on late Monday evening taking the Gotham actress and husband Will Smith's buzzy performance in Concussion [4] to task.

"First of all, Ms. Thing. Does your man not have a mouth of his own with which to speak?" she said. "And the second thing is, girlfriend, there's a lot of sh*t going on in the world that you all don't seem to recognize. People are dying. Our boys are being shot left and right. . . Maybe you didn't deserve a nomination. I didn't think, frankly, you deserved a Golden Globe nomination. You ain't Barack and Michelle Obama [5], and y'all need to get over yourselves."

This certainly isn't the first time the relationship between the former costars has gotten heated thanks to their long-standing feud [6], but it's definitely the harshest. She followed up her comments with an interview with The LA Times on Wednesday [7] where she called herself "a real freedom fighter," saying that "the Smiths just irked me because they are such pretenders, and everything is a photo op. It's just self-contrived because her hubby didn't get a nomination." See Janet's entire video above, and check out Jada and Will's eloquent response [8].

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