After revealing that she and Will Smith have been split up since 2016, Jada Pinkett Smith is suddenly declaring that they are “staying together forever.”
The Drew Barrymore Show presenter Drew Barrymore brought up the couple’s breakup during a taped interview that will appear on Tuesday while talking about Pinkett Smith’s most recent biography, “Worthy.”
“Whether or not they remain together forever, I feel like you and his shadow may have become somewhat apart in this novel. In an Entertainment Weekly preview clip, Barrymore states, “It sounds like you’re staying together forever.”
“We’re staying together forever,” Pinkett Smith responds. I made an attempt. We made an attempt.”
When Pinkett Smith revealed to the world in October that she and Smith had not been together since 2016, it stunned everyone.
In an interview with Hoda Kotb of Today, Pinkett Smith, who has been married to Smith since 1997 and has two children with the actor, stated that she and Smith had no intention of getting a formal divorce.
Pinkett Smith stated, “I think by the time we got to 2016, we were just tired of trying.”
Pinkett Smith said that she wanted to recommit to her marriage to Smith after he smacked Chris Rock at the 2022 Academy Awards at a book tour event that followed the interview.
As Business Insider previously reported, Pinkett Smith said at an event in New York City: “When I was sitting at the Oscars, it clicked in, and I was like, ‘Oh snap, you hit Chris?'”
“I was like, ‘I’m riding with you. I didn’t come into this place as your wife, but I’m leaving here as your wife because we’ve got a storm we’re going to have to deal with together. I am not going to leave your side,'” said the actor.
Pinkett Smith added, “I said, ‘I’m not going to be able to get away from this dude. I really love him.’
Smith also joined Pinkett Smith onstage at a book tour event in Baltimore, Maryland, in October, and appeared to react to the revelations made in his wife’s memoir.
The ‘King Richard’ star said of their relationship: “We call it ‘brutiful.’ It was brutal and beautiful at the same time.”
He added, “Jada is the best friend I have ever had on this planet, and I am going to show up for her and support her for the rest of my life.”
