SPLASH: Jada Pinkett Smith Reveals She’s Been Secretly Separated from Will for 7 Years as Couple is Doing ‘Heavy-Duty Work’
JADA Pinkett Smith has revealed she’s been secretly separated from her husband Will for seven years.
The actress, 52, admitted they have been trying to “figure out” what the future of their marriage looks like.
Jada Pinkett Smith has revealed she’s been secretly separated from her husband Will for seven yearsCredit: Getty
Jada and Will, 55, married in Baltimore on New Year’s Eve in 1997, while she was pregnant with their son Jaden, now 25.
Reflecting on their relationship, she told People: “We’re still figuring it out. We’ve been doing some really heavy-duty work together.
“We just got deep love for each other and we are going to figure out what that looks like for us.”
As for their kids, the Red Table Talk star said: “My children, they’re little gurus. They’ve taught me a deep sense of self-acceptance.”
Will and Jada share daughter Willow, 22, and Jaden and Will has a son Trey, 30, from a previous marriage.
Jada will share more details of their relationship in a sit-down interview with Hota Kotb on NBC News, which will air later this morning.
In a preview video, Hoda asked Jada about an incident in their marriage in 2016.
“From the year 2016, which is seven years ago now, y’all have been…” the Today anchor said, using hand gestures to indicate distance between them.
Jada responded, “Yes,” while pulling her hands apart.
The split revelation comes after Will and Jada admitted in 2020 that she had a romance with musician August Alsina, who was 25 at the time.
This happened when she and Will secretly separated in 2015.
JADA’S CONFESSION
During their joint appearance on Red Table Talk, Jada said: “Four-and-a-half years ago [I] started a friendship with August and we became really, really good friends and it all started with him just needing some help, me wanting to help his health and mental state.”
Speaking directly to Will, she added: “The outpouring for him from our family was initially about his health.
“We found all those different resources to help pull him through and, from there, you and I were going through a very difficult time.”
Will added: “I was done with your a**, marriages have that though,” to which Jada said: “We broke up.”
Pushing her to continue, Will asked: “And then what did you do, Jada?”
She replied: “As time went on I got into a different kind of entanglement with August.”
‘ENTANGLEMENT’
She went on to say that her time with August was a “personal journey,” and that although she “didn’t like how this came to be,” it was “all love”.
Will then asked what she had been looking for from her romance with August, and she replied: “I wanted to feel good. It had been so long since I felt good.”
She added it helped her to realize that “you can’t find happiness outside of yourself”.
Will and Jada rekindled their romance after her relationship with August.
The pair revealed they can “laugh” about the situation because it was “so long ago,” and their “experiences of working through it, fighting through it, talking through it”.
They ended their talk with a fist bump and a high five, and Jada praised Will for “finding the deep capacity to love me.”
Also in her People interview, Jada broke her silence on Will slapping comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars in 2022.
The Fresh Prince star hit Chris after he made a joke about Jada – who has alopecia – being bald.
Jada, who had been sitting next to Will at the awards ceremony, said: “I thought, ‘This is a skit.’
“I was like, ‘There’s no way that Will hit him.’ It wasn’t until Will started to walk back to his chair that I even realized it wasn’t a skit.”
Jada hinted that there was an incident in 2016 that led to their splitCredit: Getty
Will and Jada share Willow, 22, and Jaden, 25, and Will has a son Trey, 30, from a previous marriageCredit: Getty
In 2020, Jada admitted to having a romantic relationship with musician August Alsina, now 31Credit: Getty
