Jada Pinkett reveals that she and Will Smith had been separated for 6 years at the time of the slap.

The sequence left its mark on audiences worldwide. Upset by a joke from Chris Rock, who made fun of Will Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett’s alopecia, the latter rushed to the Oscars stage to slap him in the face. “Keep my wife’s name out of your mouth,” he said. While the actor has since issued an official apology, his wife has yet to speak publicly on the subject.

The actress, however, broke her silence this Wednesday, October 11, during an interview with the magazine. People . He told about his feelings during the incident. “I was saying: “This is a sketch. There’s no way Will would actually hit him,” she said. Before proceeding. “It wasn’t until Will started going back to his seat that I realized it wasn’t.” An interview in which the actress also made an explosive discovery. at the time of the incident, the couple had been secretly separated for six years, or seven years today.

“We were exhausted from trying”

In an interview with NBC News, which will be broadcast on Friday, October 13, the actress clarified that the couple is now leading a “completely separate” life. And if Jada Pinkett and Will Smith are still officially married, then their separation is not less recorded. “Why did it break? he began. There were so many things… in 2016 we were just exhausted from trying. I think we were both stuck in our imaginations, in what we thought the other person should be.”

Today they were trying to think about his future. “We’re still trying to sort it out,” Jada Pinkett Smith admitted People. We did intensive work together. We have a deep love for each other and will try to understand what our future could be. When asked by Hoda Kotb why the couple decided to keep their split a secret, Jada Pinkett clarified on NBC that she was “not ready” to reveal it yet. “We’re still trying to figure out how to be good partners,” he said. And then how do you present that to people? We didn’t know how to do it yet.”

“He became my drug”

The one whose book Worth it will appear on October 17, also confirmed that she was undergoing treatment for depression and suicidal thoughts when she met her future husband in 1994 during the casting of the series. The Prince of Bel-Air. “When I met him, I completely abandoned my mental health,” she analyzed. I was so dependent on him and our dynamic couple. I really thought I was cured.” At that point, the young woman even stopped taking Prozac. “He became my drug,” she commented. After their union in 1997, the couple became the subject of many rumors. Visibility that had damaged his marriage.

A “difficult and tiring” marriage

Parents of Jaden, born in 1998, and Willow, born in 2000, Jada Pinkett and Will Smith knew each other in the early 1990s. But in 2015, the actor addressed the difficulties in their relationship. “You can’t expect it to be easy,” he confided Fun online. It seems that our marriage is the most difficult, painful, exhausting thing in our lives.” At the time, Jada Pinkett Smith also became close to 27-year-old rapper August Alsina, one of her son’s friends, before starting a relationship with him. She then cut off all contact with the young man to reconnect with her husband. The couple then began marriage therapy before splitting a year later in 2016.

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