The couple formed by the two actors has been surrounded by controversy, especially in recent years ... and days
A few days ago, in the midst of the wave of rumours, bickering that the scandal caused by Will Smith and Chris Rock at the 94th Oscars has left behind, some "interesting" statements by Jada Pinkett resurfaced.
To recap --or in case someone has been living in a cave without internet--, during the ceremony that took place on March 27, in which, by the way, Smith won the award for Best Actor for his role " King Richard: A Winning Family", comedian Chris Rock made a joke in bad taste, alluding to Jada Pinkett Smith's alopecia; Will Smith's reaction was to get up from his seat to slap him and then yell from his seat: "Keep my wife's name out of your !"#$%& mouth". This fact has attracted the attention of the whole world about the couple, and, inevitably, about their very unconventional marriage.
As we mentioned, the latest contribution to the scandal was due to the resurgence of statements from 2018 on Jada's Facebook show "The Red Table Talks" that she didn't really want to marry Smith and that she was forced to marry him. mother because she was pregnant, in addition, she referred to the ceremony as "horrible".
"I didn't want to get married and I was really upset that I had to have a wedding. I was so mad I cried all the way down the aisle," which added fuel to the fire about marriage not going through the best of times, or that it has always been "weird," even though the 53-year-old actor and 50-year-old actress have been together for almost 25 years and are the parents of two sons, Jaden, 23, and Willow, 21.
A turbulent marriage
The fact is that, throughout all this time, the relationship has been full of controversy. Jada and Will have had to publicly deal with the revelation of an extramarital relationship, which Jada called "an entanglement" -she had an affair with rapper August Alsina-, with the aftermath of her confessions about her sexual life, again on "The Red Table Talks," and with Will's confession-no-confession that Jada hadn't been the only one having an affair outside of marriage, among other things.
Much has been speculated about whether the actor's violent reaction to Rock's prank, which resulted in him being banned from the Oscars for 10 years, has to do with how much his "unconventional" Marriage has been the talk of the town in recent years, in fact, Jada and Will refer to their union not as a marriage but as an "open and unconventional relationship."
At the BAFTAs, host Rebel Wilson made another joke -- also in poor taste -- that may have helped undermine Smith's tolerance. "I think his best role was being okay with all of his wife's boyfriends," said the Australian; by "jokes" like this, it is explained that the actor has finally exploded and that, according to rumors, he is voluntarily admitted to a rehabilitation clinic to manage his anger.
Mr and Mrs Smith
Will and Jada met on the set of the show "A different world". On an episode of "The Red Table Talks," Will said, "I knew there was something about our energy that would be magical" and actually went back on set to try to "pick her up" but instead met the who would become his first wife, actress Sheree Zampino.
It was not until 1994 that they met again, when Jada auditioned for the role of Will's girlfriend in "The Prince of Rap", she did not keep her role, but he was fascinated with her. "I realized I wasn't with the person I was supposed to be with," she said on "The Red Table," "I went into a bathroom and I was crying and laughing uncontrollably, I knew Jada was the one I was meant to be with."
They formally began dating in 1995, when his divorce from Sheree, the mother of his 29-year-old son, Trey, was finalized. "Are you dating anyone?" Will asked Jada, when she told him no, he replied "Okay, so now you're dating me."
Two years later they were married, Jaden, their first child, was born in 1998 and Willow in 2000.
Things get complicated
A few quiet years passed in which references to the marriage were from "one of the strongest couples in Hollywood." But things began to change in 2011, after Smith threw an extravagant birthday party for his wife on her 40th birthday. He had scheduled three days of festivities in Santa Fe, New Mexico. According to his autobiography, it took him three years to plan the party, including making a documentary about Jada and her family and hiring Mary J. Blige to sing after a dinner accessed through a long archway decorated with Jade's photos.
Instead of the emotional reaction he expected, Jada was furious, telling him it was "the most disgusting display of ego he'd ever seen" and asking him to cancel everything that was planned for the rest of the weekend. week. After several days without speaking to each other, he did not ask her for a divorce, but he did tell her that they needed time away from each other.
As he later confessed, this period was very hard for Will. They eventually reconciled and promised to "love in freedom" according to the actor in his autobiography, "which allows us to be together and simultaneously be 100% free."
The "open relationship"
In 2013, rumors began to circulate that theirs was now an "open relationship", in this regard, Jada wrote on Facebook: "Will and I can do whatever we want because we trust each other, this is not It does not mean that we are in an open relationship, but in an adult relationship.
On the other hand, Will said in an interview on the TIDAL Rap Radar podcast that they don't see each other as a married couple: "We don't refer to each other as 'life partners,' we're in that space where we see each other. the other as the person you will spend the rest of your life with, there is nothing that can break that bond. Nothing she could do would end our relationship," while in a 2021 interview with "GQ" magazine, He confessed that, although they had been monogamous for a long time, that was not currently a premise in their marriage.
The scandal of the "entanglement"
In 2020, rapper August Alsina, 29, revealed in an interview with Angela Yee that he had had an affair with Jada Pinkett, and that they had been "blessed" by Will.
He said that they met at the concert in London of the Smith children, Willow and Jaden, and that, from there, they had started a friendship. The friendship blossomed into romance, and having been in a relationship for four and a half years, he "really loved her very deeply," he said.
Shortly after, Will and Jada broached the subject --again-- on "The Red Table Talks," explaining that this happened while they were apart and at a point in their relationship when they had agreed to do whatever made them happy, but each to his own. "It became a different entanglement with August, yes, it was a relationship," said Jada, adding, "something I want to clarify is about your 'permission', I don't need anyone's permission, just my own."
When the rumors about the marriage began to calm down, the Oscar episode happened.
Total that "entanglements", controversies and slaps later, the Smiths are still united, the question is if they will continue like this or, even, if they should...
