On March 27, 2022, at the Oscars, Will Smith slapped Chris Rock live in front of millions of viewers around the world. The actor defended his violent reaction to protect his wife from the presenter's mockery about the alopecia she suffered from. Despite the unjustifiable gesture, no one doubted that the Smiths were a couple in love. Nothing could be further from the truth, because that night, although they looked complicit and smiling, they had already been separated for 6 years.
It was Jada Pinkett Smith (52) herself who revealed it in a memoir, which arrived in bookstores yesterday. In Worthy, which the publisher defines as a “roller coaster,” the actress talks about her childhood and youth, her complicated relationship with her parents, her mental health problems, and the ins and outs of her marriage to Will. Smith (55) whom she married in 1997 and has two children.
Precisely, both she and the actor have lived separately since 2016, that is, for 7 years. “We are still seeing how we fix ourselves. We've done a lot of hard work together. We feel a deep love for each other and we are going to discover what it is like for us,” Jada Pinkett Smith revealed a few days ago in an interview to promote the book in People magazine.
Pinkett, however, does not clarify the relationship she currently has with Will Smith. She also assures that their relationship is still being defined and that divorce is not being considered. “I made a promise that there will never be a reason for us to get divorced. We will work on anything,” she confessed: “And I just haven't been able to break that promise.”
The protagonist of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and The Williams Method has not remained silent and this weekend he responded to his still legal wife through an email sent to The New York Times: “When you have been with someone for more than "Half your life, a kind of emotional blindness occurs." According to Smith, reading Pinkett's confessions has woken him up and confronted reality. “You can too easily lose your sensitivity to its hidden nuances and subtle beauties.”
“In recent years, they have lived apart. As a 50th birthday gift to herself, she bought her own house and moved out of her Calabasas complex,” explains The New York Times in the article that includes the actor's testimony.
The actor has also commented in the same email that seeing what the actress's life has been like has made him realize that "she had lived a life more on the edge" and that she is "more resistant, intelligent and compassionate" than she thought. he imagined. In Worthy, Jada Pinkett Smith explains, for example, that her parents frequently used drugs and that she sold them herself in her youth, or that she has struggled with depression and suicide.
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett met in 1994 on the set of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and married on the last day of 1997. Jaden, also an actor and rapper, was born on July 8, 1998, and on October 31, 2000, he arrived. Willow, who works as an actress, model and singer. The family was completed by Trey, born on November 11, 1992, when Smith was married to Sheree Zampino.
Jada Pinkett and Will Smith seemed to form one of the most solid marriages in Hollywood, but already in 2018, on the Red Table Talk program, the actor confessed to his daughter Willow the following: “Mom got up every day and cried. She did it 45 days in a row. I kept track of her. I have never felt worse in our marriage. “I was failing miserably,” he added.
That same year, 2018, which Jada has now revealed that they were already separated, Will Smith stated on Tidal that he preferred not to use the word “marriage.” “We prefer to refer to ourselves as life partners, which is what happens when you enter that space where you realize that you are literally going to be with the other person for the rest of your days,” he explained.
Past statements by Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith are now being interpreted differently. For example: “Although at the beginning it was a monogamous relationship, now it is no longer,” the interpreter commented to GQ magazine in 2021, on the occasion of the publication of his own memoirs.
