The Oscars scandal on Sunday March 27, when Will Smith slammed Chris Rock for a joke about his wife Jada, revealed the complexity of the bond between the King Richard actor and his colleague, partner and mother of their children.
After the actor affirmed at the Dolby Theater that “love makes you do crazy things” to “protect the people you love,” media attention focused on his marriage to Pinkett. In the past few hours, a video has gone viral of Jada speaking about the anger she felt when Will hosted her 40th birthday party for her.
On one of the broadcasts of his now even more popular YouTube show Red Table Talk, Smith recalled how “devastated” he was when Jada harshly rejected the reception, and contextualized how that moment of discussion came about. According to the actor, his wish was to organize a surprise party full of luxury and surprises. “The day after his 34th birthday, I already hired a team to orchestrate his 40th birthday,” Smith said in 2018 of 2011.
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have been through a lot of turmoil
“I hired a team of documentary filmmakers, it was supposed to be my big love letter, it was supposed to get her out of her midlife crisis, it was supposed to be spectacular, something very deep,” the actor added. who hired actress and singer Mary J. Blige to perform their songs at the party. Smith was so sure Jada would enjoy the event that he disregarded a conversation he had had hours earlier.
Pinkett told him she wanted to do “something intimate,” not celebrate her birthday. Will, who had already planned the surprise party, tried to convince her otherwise. When her words weren’t enough and the celebration was carried out the same way, the actress got angry and told her husband that he was self-centered, that the birthday had more to do with him than with her. “She told me what I did was a ridiculous display of my ego and that broke me, I’m still devastated because she was right, it wasn’t a party for her,” she admitted adding in relation to the relationship: “That was a really deep point”.
Jada’s confession: ‘I never wanted to marry Will Smith’
The 50-year-old actress admitted she got married under pressure
In the same 2018 Red Table Talk round, the Smiths also opened up about another difficult time for marriage: their marriage, none the less. The actress admitted she never wanted to marry Will: “They forced me and it was horrible,” she said in front of her husband. Jada said she cried “down the aisle” and spoke of the pressure she felt to get married. “I was under a lot of pressure, I was a young actress, I was pregnant and I didn’t know what to do, but I never wanted to get married,” she confirmed.
The actress looked at her mother Adrienne, who was also on the show, and told her that she felt like she had forced her to make the relationship with Smith official. “We did it because ‘Gammy’ [el apodo que Jada le puso a su mamá] I cried. It was like she said to us, ‘You have to get married,'” he said.
“Yes, I remember having a strong desire for you guys to get married and you two being ill and not cooperative at all,” Adrienne recalled. “But I don’t recall your opposition to the idea of marriage.” Her daughter mentioned she was in a bad moment: “I was so upset that I had to get married that I walked down the friggin’ hallway crying.”
Jada and Will, in better times AP
Unlike Jada, Will said that marriage is something he desires very much and that his experience has been beautiful. “Ever since I was five years old, I have imagined what my family would be like. There wasn’t a day in my life that I didn’t want to be married and have a family,” Smith said.
Will and Jada were married on December 31, 1997 in Baltimore, Maryland and the following year Jaden, now 23, was born. In 2000, the couple welcomed Willow, 21.
In the 25 years they have been together they have suffered many shocks. The marriage went through crises, infidelities and media scandals. Two years ago, the rapper and friend of one of his children, August Alsina, revealed on an American TV show that he has been in a relationship with the actress for years. That statement has done nothing but unite Smith and Pinkett, who have opened up about Jada’s infidelity on their show, where they aren’t afraid to expose their mishaps.
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