Although your image may look a little different. Perhaps you don’t use the word “married,” for example, even though the legal system recognizes you as such. You may also have other relationships besides your main one, and your partner is fully aware of this and supports it. Or maybe you were actually separated from your husband for seven years and kept this fact a secret from so many people.
Yes, I’m talking about Jada Pinkett Smith, who recently revealed that she and Will Smith have not been together since 2016.
This is a stunning admission, especially considering how their relationship has progressed in the public eye.
Girls’ trip star (52 years old) was married to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air actor since 1997. They have children together, Jayden and Willow, as well as Will’s son Trey, whom he had with his first wife, Sheri Zampino.
The unconventional nature of their relationship has been the subject of speculation for years. In 2018, Will said on Tidal’s RapRadar podcast where he and Jada “call (themselves) life partners, where you get into that space where you realize you’re literally with someone for the rest of your life.” Then, in 2020, singer August Alsina claimed that she had a secret relationship with Jada.
At the time, Alsina stated that Will had given him and Jada his “blessing,” adding, “I actually sat down with Will and talked about moving from their marriage to a life partnership, which they’ve talked about several times, but it’s not the case. involving romance.”
Two weeks later, Jada and Will appeared on Jada’s Facebook Live talk show. Conversation at the red table to discuss the rumors, during which Jada admitted to a relationship with Alsina, clarifying that she and Will were separated at the time. However, she didn’t explain at the time that they hadn’t actually been together for several years.
However, the real drama surrounding their relationship unfolded last year at the Academy Awards when host Chris Rock joked about Jada’s shaved head and Will walked up to the stage from his seat and punched him in the face before shouting, “Hold on!” My wife’s name came out of your damn mouth.”
With Jada’s memoir on the way, there may be more to the story – that’s all she’s revealed so far PeopleApart from being separated, she and Will are “still figuring it out.”
“We did some really hard work together,” she added. “We just developed a deep love for each other and we’re going to figure out what that looks like for us.”
Obviously, there is nothing traditional about this relationship. While we can only speculate, from the outside it seems like there were moments of separation, reconciliation, and many difficult discussions about what love looks like to them.
This may seem strange to some people. Why stay married if you don’t have a romantic relationship? Why hide the fact that you’re no longer together from the public when you’ve both been subjected to unfounded online gossip about your relationship? And why try to make something that seems irreparably broken work?
Well, the truth is that we don’t know if any of this applies to Will and Jada. All we know is that whatever they do, it works for them. Does anything else matter? Who are we to judge and test? Having the level of fame that they both have is not easy for either of them as individuals, let alone as a couple. Neither of them lives an ordinary life; why should we expect them to have a traditional relationship?
This is something I will keep in mind as more revelations inevitably emerge with the publication of Jada’s book. At the end of the day, no one really knows what’s going on in a relationship except the two people in it. Sometimes remembering this can be an act of kindness.