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Will Smith<\/strong><\/a> needed to get away from the noise. \u201cNotifications off,\u201d the actor, 55, captioned a video of himself sleeping on a boat following the release of Jada Pinkett Smith<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s headline-making memoir, Worthy<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s been so difficult for Will to stand by and hear all the things Jada\u2019s been saying about him and their relationship,\u201d a source exclusively<\/a> admits to Life & Style<\/em>. \u201cHe\u2019s a private person.\u201d<\/p>\n In the bombshell book, Jada, 52, reveals that she and Will secretly separated seven years ago<\/a> and that she wanted to announce the news in 2020 when Will appeared on her talk show, Red Table Talk, to discuss her \u201centanglement\u201d with singer August Alsina<\/strong><\/a>. But she could tell that he wasn\u2019t ready to go public. \u201cA part of Will wanted to believe they could work it out,\u201d the insider tells Life & Style<\/em> of his reluctance. \u201cJada wrote in her tell-all that they were \u2018basically broken up,\u2019 but Will didn\u2019t see it that way. No, they were giving each other space and figuring things out.\u201d They still are.<\/p>\n While promoting her memoir on Today<\/em>, the actress shared that she and Will were \u201cworking hard\u201d to repair their relationship. \u201cWill loves Jada very much. Neither one of them wants a divorce,\u201d says the source. \u201cRight now, they\u2019re both just trying to make sense of the mess that their marriage has become.\u201d<\/p>\n