Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have been separated since 2016, Jada Pinkett Smith says

Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have been separated since 2016, Jada Pinkett Smith says
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The truth about Jada Pinkett Smith‘s relationship with Will Smith is coming out.

Pinkett Smith reveals to Hoda that her marriage is more complicated than she previously disclosed in an exclusive clip from her forthcoming NBC News prime-time special with Hoda Kotb, which will debut on October 13 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on NBC.

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Nearly 20 years after their marriage in 1997, Pinkett Smith claims that she and Smith have been estranged and have led “completely separate lives” since 2016.

In her new memoir “Worthy,” which is due out on October 17, Pinkett Smith goes into greater depth about their connection, including how it began and where it is at the moment.

Hoda questions Pinkett Smith in the teaser clip about the marriage bombshell in her memoir, which she claims “surprised her the most” out of the “many surprising things” in the book.

Pinkett Smith tells Kotb that although they are still legally married, she and Smith are no longer dating.

Kotb explains, “It wasn’t a divorce on paper.

“Right,” says Pinkett Smith.

It was a divorce, though, Kotb adds.

Pinkett Smith emphasizes, “Divorce.”

When Kotb openly inquires as to why the couple had withheld their relationship status in the past, Pinkett Smith responds that it was because they were “simply not ready yet… Still trying to find out between the two of us to be in partnership… How do we convey that to people, specifically? We weren’t aware of that.

When Kotb inquires as to what caused the relationship’s “fracture,” Pinkett Smith answers:

“There are many reasons why it fractured,” the speaker said. By the time we reached 2016, we had simply given up trying. We may have both been caught up in our idealized ideas of what the other person ought to be, she claims.

Even though Pinkett Smith has thought about getting a divorce on paper, she has never been able to follow through.

“I swore there would never be a justification for us to get divorced. Whatever comes up, we’ll work it out, adds Pinkett Smith. Simply said, “I just haven’t been able to break that promise.”

In addition to August Alsina’s “entanglement” with Pinkett Smith and the ensuing joint Red Table Talk interview in 2020, Smith and Pinkett Smith’s long-standing relationship has also been the subject of headlines about Chris Rock’s joke about Pinkett Smith’s hair at the 2022 Academy Awards, which resulted in Smith slapping Rock. Smith also wrote a memoir in 2021 that discussed their union.

Smith and Pinkett Smith discussed their marriage as well as Smith’s friendship with Alsina, or the “entanglement,” as she referred to it, at the Red Table Talk interview in 2020. Prior to her relationship with Alsina, Pinkett Smith and Smith acknowledged that they had been “going through a very difficult time.”

In the episode, Smith jokingly said, “I was done with your ass.”

Pinkett Smith replied, “You kicked me to the curb, yeah.” “We split up.”

Up until this point, we were unaware that the couple never actually reconnected.

Two children, Willow Smith, 21, and Jaden Smith, 24, were born to Smith and Pinkett Smith. The actor of “Pursuit of Happyness” also has a son named Trey, 29, from his previous marriage to his ex-wife Sheree Zampino.

In her autobiography, Pinkett Smith discusses her relationship with rapper Tupac Shakur, whom she first met when they were both in high school, as well as the “rollercoaster ride from the depths of suicidal depression to a height of personal rediscovery & the celebration of genuine feminine power,” according to publisher Dey Sreet Books.

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