Nicole Richie gets slapped in the head in world's most awkward interview

OMG WHY??

Oh dear, sweet God no. What did we do to deserve this record-setting level of cringe?

Nicole Richie sat down for an interview with Cat Greenleaf on Talk Stoop and there's really just no other way to say this: Nicole got slapped in the head.

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It was a high-five accident set up by Greenleaf that went horribly, irrevocably, unforgettably wrong.

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The two reacted exactly how you would expect they would.

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Oh God, it's so bad.

Eventually, the pair moved on to talk about the actress' new NBC series Great News and life as a social media trendsetter. But there's no question about it: the slap stole the show.

Watch the entire interview below (if you can make it past this extraordinarily painful moment).

Cringe.

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