The latest twist in Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s seven-year split

Actress Jada Pinkett Smith recently revealed that she and Will Smith decided to live apart seven years ago, and has now revealed that they decided not to write down the legal terms in a prenuptial document before their wedding in 1997 because they never considered divorce as an option.

The 52-year-old told Parade in an interview to promote her new autobiography Worthy: “Listen, weddings are wonderful, but they can be very romanticized. I feel like it was a very real moment for the two of us to look into each other’s eyes, acknowledge that there will be difficult times on this journey, and tell each other, “No matter what, we will get through this.” we’ll figure it out and that’s why we don’t need a prenuptial agreement because I promise there won’t be a need for divorce and we’ll figure it out.”

“And we made this promise to each other without all the wedding beauty – he just sat on a log in his mother’s backyard and said, ‘Hey.’ We have to seriously think about the fact that we cannot be together.”

Jada’s net worth is now estimated at $50 million, while Will, 55, is worth at least $350 million.

Jada and Will secretly split in 2016 after they had two children and nearly 20 years into their marriage.

She opened up about how they split ahead of the release of her memoir, and said she was stunned when Will slapped Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars for making a joke about her shaved head since they weren’t together anymore. many years.

Will shouted at the 58-year-old comedian: “Keep my wife’s name out of your f***ing lips.”

But Jada said he didn’t call her his “wife” for years before the slap.

She told the Today show: “First of all, I’m very shocked because, mind you, I’m not there.

“We haven’t called each other husband and wife for a long time. I’m really worried about Will because I don’t know what’s going on.”

Despite their seven-year separation, Jada added that she and Will have no plans to officially divorce.

She added on the Today programme: “I promised there would never be any reason for us to get a divorce.

“We can handle anything. And I just couldn’t break that promise.”