Jada Pinkett Smith recalls crying down the aisle at horrible wedding to Will Smith(Video)
Jada Pinkett Smith recalled ‘crying down the freaking aisle’ at her ‘horrible’ shotgun wedding to Will Smith in a resurfaced clip from her show Red Table Talk.
Will, 53, is awaiting a decision from the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Scientists about his potential penalty for slapping Chris Rock onstage at the Oscars over a joke he made about Jada.
Now a 2018 episode of Red Table Talk has begun circulating online where Will appeared as a guest and Jada insisted she ‘never wanted to get married.’
Will has been a guest multiple times on the talk show, which Jada hosts with her mother Adrienne ‘Gammy’ Banfield-Norris and daughter Willow Smith.
The series hit the headlines in 2020 when Jada brought Will on to discuss her extramarital ‘entanglement’ with the singer August Alsina.
Since then Will has argued in GQ that ‘marriage for us can’t be a prison’ and revealed ‘Jada never believed in conventional marriage.’
Jada herself discussed her reservations about marriage in the resurfaced Red Table Talk episode from 2018, revealing that she decided to tie the knot with Will in order to placate her mother after getting pregnant.
Will and Jada conceived their son Jaden while they were still dating and Jada said on the show: ‘I knew the moment after the act that I was pregnant.’
She revealed she ‘cried that whole night’ because she realized that ‘my life was never gonna be the same’ after she became a mother.
‘I really didn’t wanna get married,’ Jada confessed, prompting Will to say with a laugh: ‘We only got married because Gammy was crying.’
‘It was almost as if Gammy was like: “You have to get married, so let’s talk about the wedding,”‘ said Jada, noting that ‘I was under so much pressure, you know, being a young actress, being young, and I was just like pregnant and I just, I was just like, I didn’t know what to do, but I just knew, I was like, I never wanted to be married.’
‘I remember feeling very strongly and wanting you guys to be married,’ said Adrienne, who was a teenager when she became pregnant with Jada and briefly married the father Robsol Pinkett Jr.
‘I do remember that but I don’t remember your rejection of the idea of marriage. I remember the rejection of the idea of a wedding but not of a marriage,’ she added.
Jada agreed that she never wanted a wedding either, describing her feelings at the time: ‘And now Gammy done gone to Will crying about I don’t want a wedding, and now I’m being forced to have a wedding, when really I just wanted it to be the two of us on a mountain, ’cause I was like: “This is serious business.”‘
Adrienne apologized ‘that I didn’t respect your wishes,’ admitting she that she was being ‘selfish’ in insisting on a full ceremony because Jada was ‘my only child’ and this was Adrienne’s one chance to watch her daughter get married.