Will Smith Breaks Silence on Jada Pinkett Smith’s Bombshell Memoir _ E! News
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00:00 That's beautiful.
00:02 That's why I can't divorce that joker.
00:06 Will Smith is sharing his reaction
00:08 to estranged wife Jada Pinkett Smith's bombshell memoir.
00:13 After reading the book, Will writes in a letter
00:15 to Jay Shetty, who relays the message to Jada
00:18 on an upcoming episode of his podcast, On Purpose,
00:22 saying this.
00:23 I applaud and honor you.
00:27 If I had read this book 30 years ago,
00:32 I definitely would have hugged you more.
00:37 I'll start now.
00:39 Welcome to the Authors Club.
00:42 I love you endlessly.
00:45 Now go get some Merlot and take a rest.
00:47 [LAUGHS]
00:50 He know I can't have no Merlot.
00:52 [LAUGHS]
00:55 That's beautiful.
00:57 That's why I can't divorce that joker.
00:59 [LAUGHS]
01:02 In an email to The New York Times,
01:04 the actor who wed Jada in 1997 says that the book
01:08 was a bit of a wake-up call, adding, quote,
01:11 "When you've been with someone for more than half
01:13 of your life, a sort of emotional blindness sets in."
01:17 Will goes on to note that he hadn't realized just how
01:20 on the edge she had lived, adding, quote,
01:23 "You can all too easily lose your sensitivity
01:26 to their hidden nuances and subtle beauties."
01:30 Jada's book, Worthy, hits bookshelves on October 17
01:34 and details Jada's relationship with Tupac Shakur,
01:38 how she overcame suicidal ideation,
01:41 the Oscar slap felt around the world,
01:43 and the truth about her marriage to Will,
01:46 who she has been secretly separated from for seven years.
01:50 In 2016, you and Will decided that you were going to live
01:56 completely separate lives.
01:58 It was not a divorce on paper, but it was a divorce.
02:05 So from the year 2016, which is seven years ago now,
02:10 y'all have been apart.
02:14 Yeah.
02:15 And though they've been apart since 2016,
02:18 with Jada even moving out and buying her own home,
02:21 the duo, who shares kids Jaden Smith and Willow Smith,
02:25 have no plans to legally split.
02:28 I made a promise that there will never be a reason for us
02:32 to get a divorce.
02:33 We will work through whatever.
02:35 And I just haven't been able to break that promise.
02:40 But you still live separately.
02:42 We live separately.
02:44 After mentioning that the two are working
02:46 through their issues, Jada indicates
02:48 that they're still navigating their relationship.
02:51 The 52-year-old tells People in a profile published
02:55 on October 11, quote, "We're still figuring it out.
02:59 We've been doing some really heavy duty work together.
03:02 We just got deep love for each other.
03:05 And we are going to figure out what that looks like for us."
03:09 As for what ultimately drove them apart, Jada says this.
03:14 Why did the relationship fracture?
03:17 Oh, why it fractured, that's a lot of things.
03:20 And I think by the time we got to 2016,
03:23 we were just exhausted with trying.
03:26 I think we were both kind of still stuck
03:28 in our fantasy of what we thought
03:30 the other person should be.
03:32 Jada and Will tied the knot in 1997
03:35 following his divorce from Sheree Zampino,
03:38 with whom he shares 30-year-old son Trey Smith.
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