Jada Pinkett reveals she hasn’t broken up with Will Smith in new interview
Jada Pinkett Smith dropped the bombshell that she and Will Smith have been separated for the last seven years – but now, she has retracted the explosive revelation, insisting the couple are in fact ‘working very hard’ at bringing their marriage back together again.
In a new interview with Today, the Girls Trip actress, 52, claimed that people initially ‘missed’ that she was trying to explain that she and the Men In Black star, 55, had not called it quits on their marriage.
She insisted they are instead committed to getting their union 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.
Clarifying her comments 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.
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‘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. We really have been working hard.’ Jada’s clarification shocked host Hoda Kotb, who replied in disbelief: ‘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 per cent sure. You were divorced not on paper.’ ‘Right,’ Jada said.