American actress Jada Pinkett Smith with American rapper Tupac Shakur in 1996 Gene Shaw/Getty Images; Mychal Watts/WireImage
- Jada Pinkett Smith says she wasn’t able to get together with Tupac Shakur even though he was her “soulmate.”
- Pinkett Smith spoke about her friendship with the late musician in an interview with RollingOut.
- “It just wasn’t possible. There was no chemistry between us,” Pinkett Smith said.
Jada Pinkett Smith says she couldn’t have gotten together with Tupac Shakur because of a lack of chemistry – even though he was her soulmate.
In a new interview with RollingOut, the 52-year-old actress opened up about her friendship with Shakur, who died in 1996 after a drive-by shooting.
“There are all sorts of definitions of ‘soulmates,'” Pinkett Smith told RollingOut. “If there is such a thing as past lives, I definitely think Pac and I traveled through some together.”
When asked if she regrets not reaching the next level with the late hip-hop musician, Pinkett Smith laughed at the idea.
“It just wasn’t possible. There was no chemistry between us,” said the actor.
Pinkett Smith further explained that the chemistry between her and Shakur is not romantic, but rather a “friendship-love chemistry” that makes them a “dynamic duo.”
“It was as if God had created us this way. It was like, ‘Look, I’m going to put you all together, right?'” she told RollingOut. “‘But I’m telling you now, I’m going to make sure you all can’t get together because that just wasn’t the purpose.'”
Both Pinkett Smith and Shakur attended the Baltimore School of Arts together in the ’80s. In an old, undated interview video circulating online, the actress recalls the first time she met Shakur at school.
“It was the first day and he came to me and introduced himself. And in high school, Pac looked a little weird,” Pinkett Smith said in the interview clip. “But as soon as he came towards me, he was like a magnet. As soon as you paid attention to him, he somehow captivated you. And from that moment on we got along well.”
This isn’t the first time Pinkett Smith has spoken out about how she and Shakur don’t have chemistry.
In 2015, the actress revealed on The Howard Stern Show that she once asked Shakur to kiss her when they were younger.
“And when I tell you, it must have been the most disgusting kiss for both of us,” Pinkett Smith told Howard Stern.
Pinkett Smith married Will Smith in 1997, a year after Shakur’s death. Smith admitted in 2020 that he was jealous of his wife’s relationship with Shakur.
Although they have been legally married for over two decades, Pinkett Smith recently announced that she and Smith have been separated since 2016.
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