On March 27, 2022, at the Oscars gala, Will Smith gave a live prank to Chris Rock in front of millions of television viewers around the world. The actor defended the violent reaction to protect his wife from the presenter's taunts about her alopecia. Despite the unjustifiable gesture, no one doubted that the Smiths were a couple in love. Nothing could be further from the truth, since that night, despite the fact that they were seen as accomplices and smiling, they had already been separated for 6 years.
It was Jada Pinkett Smith herself (52) who revealed it in a memoir, which arrived in bookstores yesterday. In Worthy (Valuós), which the publisher defines as a "roller coaster", the actress talks about her childhood and youth, the difficult relationship with her parents, her mental health problems and the intricacies of marriage to Will Smith (55), whom she married in 1997 and has two children.
Precisely both she and the actor have been living separate lives for 7 years. "We are still seeing how we manage. We have done a lot of work together. We feel a deep love for each other and we will 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. However, Pinkett does not clarify her current relationship with Will Smith. The actress also assures that the relationship is still being defined and that divorce is not considered. “I made a promise that there will never be a reason for us to divorce. We will work to make it so", he confessed: "And I simply could not break the promise".
The protagonist of The Prince of Bel Air and The Method Williams has not kept quiet and at the weekend he responded to his still legal wife through an e-mail sent to The New York Times: "When have you been with someone else in the middle of your life, a kind of emotional blindness occurs”. According to Smith, reading Pinkett's confessions woke him up and confronted him with reality. "You can too easily lose sensitivity to its hidden nuances and subtle beauties." "The last few years, they have lived apart. As a 50th birthday gift to herself, she bought her own house and moved out of the Calabasas complex," explains The New York Times in the article that includes the actor's testimony.
The actor also commented in the same e-mail that when he saw how the actress' life has been he realized that "she had lived a life more on the edge" and that she is "more resistant, intelligent and compassionate ” than he imagined. In Worthy, Jada Pinkett Smith explains, for example, that her parents used drugs often and that she herself sold them when she was young, or that she has struggled with depression and suicide.
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett met in 1994 on the set of The Prince of Bel Air and married on the last day of 1997. On July 8, 1998, Jaden, also an actor and rapper, was born, and on the 31 In October 2000, Willow arrived, 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.
It seemed that Jada Pinkett and Will Smith formed one of the most solid marriages in Hollywood, but already in 2018, on the program Red Table Talk, the actor confessed to his daughter Willow: "Mummy got up every day and cried. He cried for 45 days straight. I did the math. I never felt worse in our marriage. We failed miserably," he added.
In the same year, 2018, in 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 the space where you realize that you will literally be with the other person for the rest of your life," he explained.
Past statements by Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith are now being interpreted in a different way: "Even though it was a monogamous relationship at the beginning, now it's not," the performer commented to GQ magazine in 2021 , on the occasion of the publication of his own memoirs.
