Jada Pinkett Smith Responds To Rumors She Cheated On Will Smith
Clearing it all up. Jada Pinkett Smith responded to the Will Smith cheating rumors amid her book release.
The two met on the set of Smith’s popular TV Show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air but later reconnected years after. They recounted the interaction in an episode of Pinkett Smith’s Facebook show Red Table Talk in 2018. “I said, ‘Hey Jada, what’s up? It’s Will.’ She said, ‘Hey, how are you doing? I said, ‘OK, are you seeing anybody?’” Smith recalled of their phone conversation after he signed his divorce papers. “And she said, ‘Um … no.’ I said, ‘Cool, you’re seeing me now.’” “And my dumba– was like, ‘OK,’” Pinkett Smith responded and laughed.
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They married in 1997, though Pinkett Smith felt “pressured” to do the wedding by her mother. “I was under so much pressure being a young actress and pregnant, and I didn’t know what to do,” she said.“My first trimester was horrible. I was so upset that I had to have a wedding. I was so pissed. I went crying down the freaking aisle getting married.”
Over the course of their relationship, Will and Jada became parents to Jaden, 25, Willow, 22, along with Trey, 30, who Will welcomed during his previous marriage to ex-wife Sheree Zampino.
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So what did Jada Pinkett Smith say about the Will Smith cheating rumors that she had with August Alsina? Read more to find out.
How did Jada Pinkett Smith respond to the Will Smith cheating rumors?
Did Jada Pinkett Smith cheat on Will Smith? In an interview on TalkShopLive, Jada denied that she cheated on her estranged husband. “I just need people to know, OK, I did not cheat on Will Smith. No matter how sad he looked at that table,” Jada shared. “And when you read [my upcoming memoir], you will kind of get an understanding of why the Red Table even happened in the first place.”
In June 2020, August Alsina went on The Breakfast Club and claimed that he had a relationship with the Girls Trip star for years and that her husband approved of the affair. “I actually sat down with Will and had a conversation due to the transformation from their marriage to life partnership that they’ve spoken on several times,” Alsina alleged. “He gave me his blessing.”
He continued, “I really loved a person. I experienced that and I know what that feels like—and some people never get that in this lifetime. So, I know that I am completely blessed. And this conversation is difficult because…it would be hard for people to understand, but once it starts to affect me and my livelihood, I have to speak up about my truth.”
Pinkett Smith later confirmed her relationship with August Alsina on an episode of Red Table Talk in July 2020 with her husband Will Smith. “We decided that we were going to separate for a period of time and you go figure out how to make yourself happy and I’ll figure out how to make myself happy,” Smith said and added that he didn’t know if they would ever speak again. “From there, as time went on, I got into a different kind of entanglement with August,” she said, later admitting it was a “relationship.” “It had been so long since I felt good and it was really a joy to help heal somebody,” she said of her time with Alsina, saying that she wanted to “fix” people instead of fixing herself. “I think that that whole process with Aug really showed me that and taught me that,” she reflected.
Why did Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith separate?
Why did Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith separate? While promoting her new book Worthy, Jada Pinkett Smith revealed that she and her husband Will Smith separated in 2016 and they simply grew out of the relationship. As to why they haven’t filed for divorce, Pinkett Smith told Hoda Kotb in a preview of an hour-long primetime interview that the two are “just not being ready yet … Still trying to figure out between the two of us how to be in partnership … In regards to, how do we present that to people? We hadn’t figured that out.”
Kotb asked about what exactly made the marriage fracture, “Why it fractured…that — that’s a lot of things,” Pinkett Smith revealed. “By the time we got to 2016, we were just exhausted with trying. I think we were both kind of just still stuck in our fantasy of what we thought the other person should be.”
She also talked about the promise she made to Smith. “I made a promise that there will never be a reason for us to get a divorce. We will work through … whatever,” Pinkett Smith says. “I just haven’t been able to break that promise.”
She echoed the same sentiment in an exclusive interview with People. “We’re still figuring it out. We’ve been doing some really heavy-duty work together. We just got deep love for each other and we are going to figure out what that looks like for us.”
As for what her three kids Jaden, 25, Willow, 22, and Trey, 30 (whom Smith had with ex-wife Sheree Zampino) think of Pinkett Smith amid all of this, she said, “My children, they’re little gurus. They’ve taught me a deep sense of self-acceptance.” She continued, “They love every part of me. The level of love, unconditional love that they have for me and their dad. And it’s one thing to want to be the person that gives that unconditional love. And then there’s, to be the recipient of that.”
Worthy by Jada Pinkett Smith
Jada Pinkett Smith was living what many would view as a fairy-tale of Hollywood success. But appearances can be deceiving, and as she felt more and more separated from her sense of self, emotional turmoil took hold. Sparing no detail, Worthy chronicles her life—from a rebellious youth running the Baltimore streets as an observer and participant in the drug trade, to the deep bond she shared with Tupac Shakur from the moment they met, to her move to Los Angeles and the successful career she built on her own terms, to becoming the wife of superstar Will Smith and mother to Jaden, Willow and bonus-mom to Trey . A rollercoaster from the depths of suicidal depression to the heights of self-acceptance and spiritual healing, Worthy is a woman’s journey to finding herself again.
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