{"id":46133,"date":"2023-10-15T22:06:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T22:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/15\/will-smith-breaks-silence-on-7-year-separation-from-jada-pinkett-smith\/"},"modified":"2023-10-15T22:06:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T22:06:14","slug":"will-smith-breaks-silence-on-7-year-separation-from-jada-pinkett-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/15\/will-smith-breaks-silence-on-7-year-separation-from-jada-pinkett-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Smith Breaks Silence on 7-Year Separation from Jada Pinkett Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>Breaking his silence. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/will-smith\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Smith<\/a><span>\u00a0is speaking out and sharing his thoughts about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/jada-pinkett-smith-reveals-where-she-stands-with-will-smith-now-after-7-years-of-separation-213031\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his seven-year separation<\/a><span> from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/jada-pinkett-smith\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jada Pinkett Smith<\/a><span>, and her <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/jada-pinkett-smith-to-release-new-memoir-worthy-how-to-pre-order-the-book-212934\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">forthcoming bombshell memoir, <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/jada-pinkett-smith-to-release-new-memoir-worthy-how-to-pre-order-the-book-212934\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Worthy<\/a><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>In a recent profile interview with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/14\/arts\/jada-pinkett-smith-worthy.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the <em>New York Times<\/em><\/a><span>, Jada opens up about many of the revelations made in her forthcoming tome &#8212; including her past suicidal inclinations, depression, the use of hallucinogens to help explore her mental health issues, and her unique marital situation with Will.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The memoir is a raw, bare and candid exploration of the inner demons she&#8217;s battled, and Smith told the <\/span><em><span>New York Times<\/span><\/em><span>, in an email, that reading the book reminded him of how strong his wife truly is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;When you\u2019ve been with someone for more than half of your life,\u00a0a sort of emotional blindness sets in,&#8221; the Oscar-winning actor wrote. &#8220;You can all too easily lose your sensitivity to their hidden nuances and subtle beauties.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"shortcode shortcode-image content-in\"><figcaption class=\"content-in\"><span class=\"shortcode-image__credit\">Jeff Kravitz\/FilmMagic<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>Last week,\u00a0the 52-year-old actress sat down with <\/span><em><span>Today<\/span><\/em><span>&#8216;s Hoda Kotb for an intimate discussion about her upcoming memoir. During the\u00a0NBC News prime-time special, Jada broke down the many startling revelations from her book,\u00a0including her marriage to Will.\u00a0 Jada\u00a0shared that\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/jada-pinkett-smith-reveals-she-and-will-smith-have-been-separated-since-2016-212855\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">she and Will have been\u00a0separated for seven years<\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Yes, it was not a divorce on paper, but it was a divorce,&#8221;\u00a0Jada told Hoda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The\u00a0<\/span><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/movie\/girls-trip\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Girls Trip<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span>star disclosed that she and Will, 55, have been leading &#8220;completely separate lives&#8221; since 2016, even though they never officially divorced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Through the years rumors swirled about the couple, but Jada said, &#8220;I can definitely understand why there would be misunderstandings, but none of it&#8217;s true.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The separation began seven years ago, as Jada confirmed during the interview, making it a long-standing arrangement that they have successfully kept private from the public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When asked why they chose to maintain this arrangement, Jada said, &#8220;I think just not being ready yet. Still trying to figure out between the two of us how to be in a partnership, and in regards to how do we present that to people, you know? And we hadn&#8217;t figured that out.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I think by the time we got to 2016, we were just exhausted with trying. I think we were both kind of just still stuck in our fantasy of what we thought the other person should be,&#8221; Jada said, adding that she made a promise to herself and Will to never allow their marriage to result in a divorce. &#8220;I made a promise that there will never be a reason for us to get a divorce. We will work through whatever. And I just haven&#8217;t been able to break that promise.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Divorce, at least at the present time, is off the table. &#8220;We don&#8217;t want to,&#8221; Jada said. &#8220;We love our family. And we love each other. It&#8217;s more of a life partnership. Ten years from now, Hoda, who knows?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>Worthy<\/span><\/em><span>\u00a0will be available wherever books are sold on Oct. 17.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>RELATED CONTENT:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/will-smith-breaks-his-silence-on-7-year-separation-from-jada-pinkett-smith-and-bombshell-memoir\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking his silence. Will Smith\u00a0is speaking out and sharing his thoughts about his seven-year separation from Jada Pinkett Smith, and her forthcoming bombshell memoir, Worthy. In a recent profile interview with the New York Times, Jada opens up about many of the revelations made in her forthcoming tome &#8212; including her past suicidal inclinations, depression, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[174,1432,20,1005],"class_list":{"0":"post-46133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-entertainment-tonight","9":"tag-jada-pinkett-smith","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-will-smith"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}