Will Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, have been living separate lives for more than seven years, even though they have not formalized their divorce, the actress admitted in a television interview.
The American network NBC News published a preview of journalist Hoda Kotb’s interview with Pinkett Smith this Wednesday in which she confesses that the couple had not made their divorce public earlier because they were ‘not ready for it yet’.
This is one of the revelations in her upcoming memoir ‘Worthy’, which will be published on October 17.
Pinkett Smith, 52, and Smith, 55, have been married since 1997 and while they haven’t taken the step of legally divorcing, they have been living “completely separate lives” since 2016.
Despite this, they have continued to maintain the public image of a couple all these years and as such have attended dozens of public events together.
Among them at the 2021 Hollywood Academy Awards, where the actor punched comedian Chris Rock after he made a joke about the actress’ physical appearance.
An event that resulted in the Oscar winner being banned (that same evening) for ten years from any event organized by the Hollywood Film Academy.
The interview, which will air in full on the 13th, was conducted in the city of Baltimore, where Pinkett Smith lives as it is her hometown.
According to what the actress confesses to Kotb during the interview, her marriage broke down due to “a lot of things”: “I think when we got to 2016, we were both exhausted from trying,” says the actress, who has two children with Will Smith. .
“I think we were both still stuck in our fantasy of what we thought the other person should be like,” he adds.
To this day, however, neither feels ready to formally divorce, he says, as one day he made a promise not to do so and he still hasn’t been able to break it.
Source: El heraldo

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