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In promotion of her new memoir Worthy, Jada Pinkett Smith has been giving tons of interviews in recent weeks and has been using the opportunities to further air out personal details of her and Will Smith’s relationship.
Over the course of the last week alone, Pinkett has revealed, among other things, that she and Smith have been separated for 7 years; thought the Chris Rock slap was a skit; claimed Rock asked her out; and said she was ‘shocked’ Smith called her his wife during the infamous Oscars moment.
Responding to Pinkett’s revelations, Smith sent an email to the New York Times saying that the book “kind of woke him up.”
The memoir, Smith said in an email, kind of woke him up. She had lived a life more on the edge than he’d realized, and she is more resilient, clever and compassionate than he’d understood. “When you’ve been with someone for more than half of your life,” he wrote, “a sort of emotional blindness sets in, and you can all too easily lose your sensitivity to their hidden nuances and subtle beauties.” [via New York Times]
It’s hard not to feel for Smith, who has now spent literal years being publicly embarrassed by the mother of his children. A few years ago, for example, Pinkett went on record to say — in a conversation with her daughter, no less — that she had a threesome and that she thinks about Tupac “every day.”
There was also the infamous “entanglement” meme back in 2020, which resulted in Smith’s miserable-looking face going viral.
Prior to Pinkett’s recent book tour, Smith had been largely laying low since slapping Chris Rock at the 2022 Academy Awards, having given only a handful of interviews and starring in just one film, AppleTV+’s Emancipation, since. Next up, Smith will be seen starring in a fourth Bad Boys film, which will not be titled Bad Boys For Life, as they decided to use that title for the third movie in the franchise.