Will Smith has finally addressed Jada Pinkett Smith’s many claims about her partner and their marriage.
In recent years, Pinkett Smith, 52, has shared several revelations about her life behind closed doors with the Oscar king richard actor, 55
Latest details shared in The matrix revolution In actress Pinkett Smith’s new memoir is the fact that she was “estranged” from Smith for seven years.
The actress revealed, saying she was “shocked” that Smith called her his “wife” while supporting her against Chris Rock’s joke at the 2022 Oscars, which infamously ended with Smith punching Rock in the face on stage.
In a separate interview with People While promoting her upcoming memoir, Pinkett Smith revealed that while the couple are not legally divorced, they have been living separately since 2016.
Smith has now once again endorsed Pinkett Smith, this time in an on-the-record statement shared with The New York Timeswho interviewed the latter.
The outlet reports that Smith told his wife’s memoir titled Good“kind of woke him up” and that he now realized he was “more resilient, smarter and more compassionate than he realized”.
He added: “When you’ve been with someone for more than half your life, a certain emotional blindness sets in and you can all too easily lose your sensitivity to their hidden nuances and subtle beauties.”
Smith married Jada Pinkett in 1997 after divorcing actor Sheree Zampino two years earlier. They first met after the latter failed an audition for the role of Smith’s character’s girlfriend in the 1990s series. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
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Rumors that the couple are in an open relationship started circulating after Pinkett Smith said so The Huffington Post in 2013: “Will is his own man. I’m here as his partner, but he’s his own person.”
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith photographed in 2015
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She elaborated on her quotes when she spoke to Howard Stern in 2015. “At the end of the day, I’m not here to watch anybody,” she said. “I believe Will is an honest man. So he has all the freedom in the world.”
However, after rumors of the couple’s relationship continued, Pinkett Smith wrote on her Facebook page: “Will and I BOTH can do WHATEVER we want because we trust each other. That does NOT mean we have an open relationship…it means we have an ADULT.’
In 2020, singer August Alsina claimed that Smith gave him his “blessing” to have a relationship with Pinkett Smith, who later clarified that she was “involved” with Alsina while she and her husband were “amicably separated”.
Smith and Pinkett Smith have two children together: Jaden Smith – who was born in 1998 – and a daughter, Willow, who was born in 2000.
Good will be published on Tuesday (October 17).
