Will Smith says Jada Pinkett Smith’s truth bombs “kind of woken him up” to his estranged wife “being more resilient, smarter and more compassionate than he understood,” and says he has “emotional blindness” to her “hidden nuances.” developed.
Will Smith said Jada Pinkett Smith’s truth bombs “somehow woke him up” and made him realize that his estranged wife is “more resilient, smarter and more compassionate than he understood.”
The actor admitted in an email that he developed an “emotional blindness” to their “hidden nuances” after Jada revealed to the world that the two had been living “completely separate lives” since 2016.
The prominent Hollywood couple married in 1997 and have dealt with breakups and marital problems in the past, but Pinkett Smith revealed in an interview with Hoda Kotb that the couple is essentially getting an undocumented divorce.
Smith, 55, and Pinkett Smith, 52, share two children, Willow and Jaden, and a son, Trey, from Smith’s first marriage.
The actor admitted in an email that he developed an “emotional blindness” to their “hidden nuances” after Jada revealed to the world that the two had been living “completely separate lives” since 2016
The NYT said her new memoir, titled “Worthy,” “kind of woke Will up.”
Will said in an email to the newspaper: “When you’ve been with someone for more than half your life, a kind of emotional blindness sets in, and it’s all too easy to lose sensitivity to that person’s hidden nuances and subtle beauties .”
He had just realized that she was “more resilient, smarter and more compassionate than he thought,” the NYT reported.
News of the couple’s split surprised many, given Pinkett Smith’s candor on her Red Table Talk series, in which she and Smith discussed their extramarital relationship in a 2020 episode, and the slap at the 2022 Academy Awards.
At the ceremony, Smith took the stage and punched host Chris Rock after Rock made a joke about Pinkett Smith’s hair.
Smith has apologized multiple times for the incident, which earned him a 10-year ban from attending the Academy Awards or other Academy events.
And at the time, no one in the public knew that the highly publicized couple had been living apart since 2016.
Since then, she and Smith have made many public declarations of love and admiration for each other, suggesting that their split was amicable.
The New York Times describes the couple as “partners in family and business who have long maintained an agreement they call “a relationship of transparency.”
When Will Smith wrote his own memoir in 2021, he actually gave the impression that the two were in a deep and strong relationship.
In a television interview last year, he said: “There has never been any infidelity in our marriage. “Jada and I talk about everything and we have never surprised each other with anything.”
But it is now clear that the actual situation is completely different.
“Why not just have an amicable divorce? Why not just do that?” asked Hoda Kotb during Friday’s interview.
“We don’t want to,” Pinkett Smith replied.
“We love our family and we love each other. You know, it’s more of a civil partnership. Who knows in ten years?’ Pinkett Smith said.