Jada Pinkett Smith recently revealed she has been separated from her husband Will Smith since 2016.
The actress, 52, said in an interview with Sky News’ US partner network NBC News that they are “figuring out” their marriage.
She said the they are still legally married but living separately.
“We’re still trying to figure out between the two of us how to be in partnership and how do we present that to people? We hadn’t figured that out. Why it fractured? That’s a lot of things. I think by the time we got to 2016, we were too exhausted with trying. I think we were both stuck in our fantasy of what we thought the other person should be.”
Not divorced
She told NBC presenter Hoda Kotb that she considered getting a divorce but did not go through with it.
“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.”
Pinkett Smith admitted in 2020 that she had a years-long affair with singer August Alsina.
Jada and Will, 55, married in 1997 and have two children together – Jaden, 25 and 22-year-old Willow. Will has a third child, 30-year-old Trey, from a previous relationship.
Chris Rock hitting on her
Jada also revealed that Rock once reached out to ask her to go on a date while rumors were circulating about her possible divorce from Will.
“I think every summer all the reports would come out that me and Will were getting a divorce,” Jada said. “And this particular summer, Chris, he thought that we were getting a divorce. So he called me and basically he was like, ‘I’d love to take you out.’ And I was like, ‘What do you mean?’ He was like, ‘Well, aren’t you and Will getting a divorce?’ I was like, ‘No. Chris, those are just rumors.’ He was appalled. And he profusely apologized and that was that.”
By BNN