Jada Pinkett Smith reveals she has been separated from actor husband Will Smith since 2016

Los Angeles: Talk show host and actor Jada Pinkett Smith has revealed that she and her husband, actor Will Smith, have separated and have been living “completely separate lives” since 2016.

The actors married on New Year’s Eve 1997 in a quiet ceremony in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. They have a son, Jaden, 24, and a daughter, Willow, 21. Will also has a 29-year-old son named Trey from his first marriage to his ex-wife, actor Shelly Zampino.

In a clip from an upcoming primetime special with Hoda Kotb on the American TV show Today, Jada admits that she has been living “completely separate lives” since 2016, and that she is writing about her upcoming memoir. This is revealed in “Worthy”.

The Red Table Talk host revealed that while she and Will are still legally married, they are no longer romantically involved.

“It wasn’t a divorce on paper,” Hoda said, to which Jada, 52, responded, “That’s right.”

“…But it was a divorce,” the interviewer pressed. “It’s a divorce,” said Jada, who is running a campaign promoting “Worth”.

Public marriage rumors, Jada’s ‘entanglement’ with singer August Alsina, Will, 55, slapped Oscar host Chris Rock for joking about his wife’s hair at the 2022 Academy Awards and more , their long-standing relationship was often fraught. Heading.

When asked why the couple didn’t reveal their relationship status until now, Jada said, “They just aren’t ready.”

“We’re still trying to figure out a way for the two of us to form a partnership…For that matter, how do we show that to people? We hadn’t thought of that,” she added.

By 2016, she said, both Will and Jada were “tired of trying.”

“I think we were both still stuck in our own fantasies of what the other person should be like,” she says, adding that although she had considered a legal divorce, she never thought about pursuing it. He added that he couldn’t.

Will also published a memoir in 2021 that touches on his marriage. PTI RDS RDS RDS