Courtney Love saves Chris Rock from beating

The comedian upset the Sherlock Holmes star when he was hosting the 2005 Oscars.

And when he ran into him later, they almost got in a fight.

But former Hole rocker Love scared off the British-born star.

He said: 'I was sitting with Courtney Love, and she might've saved me from a fight. I'm not going to say ass-whipping because I don't think there'd be an ass-whipping.

'But you never know - he's hanging out with [director] Guy Ritchie. Those guys go at it. Those mother****ers are in shape. So Jude Law might whip my ass, I don't know.'

But Rock, 46, told a US magazine: 'Courtney kind of barked, or was growling, and that was it.'

Rock made a crack at the Academy Awards about Law being in 'every movie' that year and he still doesn't understand what the fuss is about.

He said: 'I didn't say Jude Law can't act. I didn't say Jude Law was in bad movies. I just said he's in every movie.'