Will Smith responds to Jada Pinkett Smith’s damning revelations from her new memoir

Steve Hopkins

Smith said Jada’s memoir had ‘woken’ him up

Will Smith has finally spoken out after his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, spent a week unloading her secrets to the media ahead of the launch of her memoir, Worthy.

In her book the 52-year-old revealed – amid a myriad of other things, that her and Smith have been living separately for seven years, that Chris Rock asked her out when rumours first started swirling around that she and the I Am Legend star were separating and that Tupac once proposed to her. For a fuller account of Jada’s headline-grabbing revelations, read Buzzfeed’s account here.

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– “I Just wanted to stay alive until 4pm!”
– “Tupac kissed me twice & proposed to me!”
– “I was resentful about Will’s success!”
– “Why me & Will Separated!"
– “I wanted to be the No.1 Drug Dealer!"
+ MORE

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— Steven Bartlett (@StevenBartlett) October 16, 2023

‘A sort of emotional blindness sets in’ – Will Smith

Will Smith – who tied the knot in 1997 – have been living separately, but aren’t officially divorced: “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.”

Jada went on to explain that the unique arrangement had continued for so long as the couple are “just not ready yet” and are still “trying to figure out between the two of us how to be in a partnership, and in regards to how do we present that to people, you know?”

Smith has since opened up to The New York Times via email.

He said Jada’s memoir had “kind of woke him up” and he realised she is more “resilient, clever and compassionate than he’d understood”. He wrote:

“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.”

Jada Pinkett blames Will Smith for $I@pping Chris Rockpic.twitter.com/ppMOHiaiYJ

— Instablog9ja (@instablog9ja) October 13, 2023

In her interview with Today, Jada also spoke about the infamous 2022 Oscars incident, where Smith slapped Rock onstage and told him to, “Keep my wife’s name out of your f****** mouth.” The comedian make a ‘G.I. Jane’ gag at Jada’s expense.

Rather than being shocked by Smith’s physical response – that saw him being banned from the ceremony for years to come – Jada said she was more surprised the 55-year-old referred to her as “his wife”.