Jada Pinkett has NOT broken up with Will Smith as she reveals the couple are in a
Jada Pinkett Smith has revealed that she and her husband Will Smith are ‘working very hard’ at bringing their marriage back together again – despite previously admitting to being separated for the last seven years.
The Girls Trip actress, 52, insisted that she and the Men In Black star, 55, are committed to getting their relationship back to a ‘life partnership’ and are ‘concentrating on healing’.
It comes just days after Jada shocked the world by sharing that she and Will had been living ‘completely separate lives’ as of 2016 because they were ‘exhausted with trying’ to repair their romance – and were living apart when Will slapped comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars in 2022.
Making the bombshell admission on the Today show on Monday, ahead of the release of her new memoir, Worthy, Jada said: ‘We are working very hard at bringing our relationship, yes, bringing our relationship back together… back to a marriage again.
Jada Pinkett Smith has revealed that she and her husband Will Smith are ‘working very hard’ at bringing their marriage back together again
The actress admitted last week that she and Will have been separated for the last seven years
‘Husband-wife marriage for me, for my healing process. I came into that with very specific ideas, right? Very specific ideas that were blocks. To me just seeing will to who he is. He can’t be this perfect idealized husband.
‘I have to be able to accept him for the human he is. He accepts me for the human that I am, and we want to love each other there.’
Jada’s clarification came as a big surprise to Today show presenter Hoda Kotb, who was in disbelief.
‘We really have been working hard,’ Jada had initially said, prompting Hoda to respond, ‘Oh! Okay. Well, I didn’t know that.’
‘That’s the point I was trying to tell you,’ the actress continued. ‘You totally missed that. That’s the whole thing.’
‘So, wait,’ a confused Hoda replied. ‘Just so I’m 100% sure. You were divorced not on paper.’
‘Right,’ Jada said.
Speaking to Hoda on the program last week, Jada explained why her marriage to Will broke down.
Jada insisted on the Today show that she had been trying to get across her and Will’s commitment to repairing their marriage
‘By the time we got to 2016, we were just exhausted with trying,’ she said. ‘I think we were both still stuck in our fantasy of what we thought the other person should be.
‘I made a promise that there will never be a reason for us to get a divorce. We will work through whatever. And I just haven’t been able to break that promise.’
‘But you still live separately?’ Hoda probed, with Jada confirming ‘we live separately’.
Jada and Will married in 1997 and have addressed separations and marital troubles in the past.
The prominent Hollywood couple share two children, Willow and Jaden, as well as a son, Trey, from Smith’s first marriage.
Over the weekend, Will admitted in an email that he had developed ’emotional blindness’ to her ‘hidden nuances’ after Jada revealed to the world that the pair have been living separately.
The NYT said that Jada’s new memoir ‘kind of woke Will up’ as he realized that his wife was living ‘more on the edge’ than he’d realized.
Will said in an email to the newspaper: ‘When you’ve been with someone for more than half of your life a sort of emotional blindness sets in, and you can all too easily lose your sensitivity to their hidden nuances and subtle beauties.’
Hitting shelves October 17! Jada has been promoting her 416-page memoir Worthy
Jada (seen with Will in 2022 – six years after they separated) said she considered a legal divorce but could never go through with it
Jada and Will pictured at the Oscars in 2022 with their children Jaden and Willow, as well as Will’s son Trey, 30, by his first wife Sheree Zampino
He has only just realized that she is ‘more resilient, clever and compassionate than he’d understood,’ the NYT reported.
News of their separation last week came as a shock to many – especially given they had previously denied gossip about their marriage and kept up the appearance of a committed married couple.
At the 94th Academy Awards, Will famously slapped comedian Chris when he joked that Jada looked like ‘G.I. Jane’ because of her bald head when she had recently revealed that was suffering from alopecia.
Clearly enraged by the jab, the Fresh Prince star stormed the stage and proceeded to slap Chris for making the joke.
The shocking assault occurred moments before he took home the Best Actor gong for his portrayal of tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams’s devoted father in the film King Richard.
In a rambling acceptance speech, a sobbing Smith admitted that ‘love makes you do crazy things’ – but tellingly failed to apologize to Chris for his assault.
After Jada revealed last week that she and Will had separated, The View’s Ana Navarro had suggested the shock admission was an ‘unseemly’ money making ploy to help the actress ‘sell books’.
‘I think she’s having a relationship with her bank account because every time she needs to, like, increase the ratings of the Red Table, every time she needs to sell books, she drops these bombshells,’ Ana said. ‘I find it unseemly.’