Chris Rock claims to have turned down a tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey

Chris Rock said he won't be "crying [his] eyes out" in public anytime soon. Photo / AP

Chris Rock won't be "crying [his] heart out" in public anytime soon.

The comedian took to the stage this week where he claimed he turned down a tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey.

The Top 5 star was slapped at the Oscars this year by Will Smith after telling a joke about the King Richard actor's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, but he told fans at a stand-up comedy gig in Phoenix, Arizona, over the weekend that he won't be "crying [his] heart out" in public about the incident.

Speaking on Entertainment Tonight, audience member January Harrison said, "During the evening, he did describe that he declined an offer to go onto Oprah to do to a sit-down interview and even a Super Bowl commercial with Will Smith himself.

"He said, 'I am not going to be a victim.'

"I think we were all wondering if he was going to talk about that incident or not."

Will Smith famously slapped Chris Rock during the 2022 Oscars. Photo / AP

Multiple audience members also revealed Rock said he had been asked to host the Oscars next year but had dismissed the offer.

One source said: "Chris Rock said he was asked to host next year's Academy Awards at his Sunday night show at Arizona Financial Theatre, and that he refused the offer. He also noted that he was offered the chance to do a Super Bowl commercial that he also declined.

"Chris joked that returning to the Oscars would be like returning to the scene of the crime and said that it would be similar to asking Nicole Brown Simpson to go back to the Italian restaurant where she left her glasses."

An audience member urged him to "talk about" the slap, and he referenced Smith's role as Muhammad Ali in 2001's Ali.

He added: "He's bigger than me. The state of Nevada would not sanction a fight between me and Will Smith."

The Men in Black actor struck Rock across the face less than an hour before picking up his Best Actor statuette for his role in King Richard at the Oscars back in March.

Last month, he apologised and reached out to the comic publicly, while claiming he had been hurt both "psychologically and emotionally" by the incident.