Talk about double talk!
Jada Pinkett Smith, the insufferable half of Hollywood’s most bizarre couple — if they’re still a couple, which we’ll get to shortly — is promoting her new memoir, pretentiously titled “Worthy.”
Here, in a nutshell, is our clear, honest, straightforward Jada, talking to NBC’s equally pseudo-intellectual Hoda Kotb:
Hoda: ‘I feel like you’re a straight talker.’
Jada: ‘I am.’
Hoda: ‘Except sometimes you’re not.’
Jada: ‘Yes.’
Buckle up! We’re standing up for the truth — sorry, Jada’s “truth” — about her marriage, Shamar, and a media that just won’t leave the poor Smiths alone.
Talk about double talk! Jada Pinkett Smith, the insufferable half of Hollywood’s most bizarre couple — if they’re still a couple, which we’ll soon see — is promoting her new memoir, pretentiously titled “Worthy.”
Buckle up! We’re standing up for the truth — sorry, Jada’s “truth” — about her marriage, Shamar, and a media that just won’t leave the poor Smiths alone. (Pictured: Jada and Will Smith at the Vanity Fair Oscars 2022 Afterparty).
Her big reveal, a sensational headline meant to give Judy her all-centered Norma Desmond moment, is that she and Will, aggressively marketed as a decades-long marital success story, have been separated for the last time for seven years.
Except maybe… they didn’t? Back to that meeting of the minds.
“It wasn’t a divorce on paper,” Hoda asks, “but was it a divorce?”
“Divorce,” Jada confirms.
So why not just publish it? Why continue this perennial charade?
“I don’t think I’m ready yet,” says Jada, despite having had seven years to adjust. ‘You’re still trying to figure out between the two of us how to be a partnership, aren’t you?’
Jada’s new memoir is titled ‘Worthy’.
huh? Isn’t the point of divorce that you are no longer ‘partnered’? What on earth is Jada Pinkett Smith talking about? Can she figure it out?
Seriously, these are questions every interviewer should be asking. But instead, here’s Hoda and People magazine and any number of outlets taking Jada at her illogical, nonsensical, self-important word.
Here’s Hoda leaning in, literally, practically begging for approval, while Jada sits regally straight, in her expensive hoodie and leather jacket combo, taking it all in.
Hoda goes so far as to tell us that Jada is ‘honest and honest throughout this book.’
Of course. Who wouldn’t believe someone who just told us that she and Will have been lying to the public for the better part of a decade, that they’re fine as divorced… and yet, “I promised there would never be a reason for us to divorce. We’ll work through whatever. And I just wasn’t able to break that promise.’
Notice the glee on Jada’s face, that ear-to-ear smile and the cutting hand motions, as she tells us that she and Will are no more.
This is a woman who has always enjoyed publicly humiliating her far more famous and successful husband.
Just check out her unboxing video on Twitter, admiring a copy of her recently published memoir, surrounded by family as Will grins maniacally in the back, struggling to see.
Jada seems to be the way she is au courant, both a victim and a strong woman. Fake when it suits her, but honest otherwise. Beneficiary of her husband’s wealth and fame, and also a seething, deeply resentful other half.
Her big reveal, a sensational headline meant to give Judy her self-centered Norma Desmond moment, reads: she and Will (pictured in 2022), aggressively marketed as a marriage success story, have split for the last seven year. Why don’t you just post it? Why continue this perennial charade?
what can we say? Jada Pinkett Smith contains multitudes.
Recall her revelation in July 2020 on “Red Table Talk,” her budget Facebook show, about Will’s cheating with August Alsin, a much younger man who was good friends with her son Jayden.
Incidentally, a discovery she made with Will sitting at that table across from her, disgraced and crippled.
‘Revelation’ — why? After all, it was 2020, and if we were to take Jada’s word for it, she and Will had already been separated-divorced for four years.
But whose fault was this scandal? The media, of course!
“This Red Table, for me — just, all the stuff that’s going on in the press,” says Jada. “I felt like it was important to come to the table to really clear the air…”
“And one of the reasons I wanted to come to the table,” Will interjects, “the media, the headlines . . .”
‘Ugh!’ Yada moans.
“We never said anything,” Will says.
Yet these two were speaking this in a show that Jada built from their family dysfunction and discovery.
This is the only way she’s ever managed to draw attention to herself, and then turn around and blame the ‘media’ – the media she has no problem using to whip up her ridiculous memoir – for all her marital woes.
Here’s Jade describing her wedding day during a 2018 episode of ‘Red Table Talk’.
“I never wanted to get married… I really didn’t want to get married… I was so mad I cried down the fucking aisle. I cried all the way down the aisle.’
Will Smith was also part of that ‘Red Table Talk’. She said this to her husband’s face.
what can we say? Jada Pinkett Smith contains multitudes. Recall her revelation in July 2020 on “Red Table Talk,” her budget Facebook show, about Will’s cheating with August Alsin (pictured), a much younger man who was good friends with her son Jaden. Incidentally, a discovery she made with Will sitting across from her, embarrassed and weakened.
Which brings us to Slap at the 2022 Oscars.
First, she tells Hoda that her reaction to Chris Rock’s joke about her shaved head—an eye roll followed by a deadpan look she gave a grinning Will—has nothing to do with her vanity.
Oh no. Jada is about a much bigger goal.
“I didn’t roll my eyes that much,” she says, holding out a perfectly manicured index finger to make it all the more serious. “I think this is really important – but the fact that there could be a sting in alopecia.”
Alopecia! Humanity!
Luckily, Jada’s hair grew back in time for this press tour.
But as for that infamous Oscar moment: Will, after slapping Rock on stage, sits back up and yells, ‘Keep my wife’s name out of your fucking mouth.’
Jada says she was stunned – not by her husband’s violent act, but by Will calling her his ‘wife’. Although, you know, they went to the Oscars and presented themselves as a happily married couple. Although afterwards they both insisted that Will was simply defending his wife’s honor.
Jada is apparently flipping the space-time continuum. Sometimes she’s one half of an A-list power couple. Other times she has no idea why Will thinks they’re still married.
“I’m really shocked,” says Jada Hody. “Watch out, I’m not there.” We haven’t been called “husband” and “wife” for a long time. I wonder “What’s going on right now?”
No concern was expressed for the man who had just been violently attacked during a live broadcast witnessed by billions – a moment that became a meme, that will live forever.
No, Jada is only concerned with one thing: Nomenclature.
Despite the fact that after the Oscars, Will and Jade took their three kids to the Vanity Fair afterparty and danced to Will’s bad music and proudly peacocked as a strong family unit unfazed by his disgraceful act.
Oh, and let’s not forget Jada’s struggle in all of this.
As for that infamous Oscar moment: Will, after slapping Rock onstage, sits back up and yells, ‘Keep my wife’s name out of your fucking mouth.’ Jada says she was stunned, not by her husband’s violent act, but by Will calling her his ‘wife’. Although, you know, they went to the Oscars and presented themselves as a happily married couple. Although afterwards they both insisted that Will was simply defending his wife’s honor.
“My honest opinion,” she tells Hoddy, without a trace of irony, “is that the story had to do with the bogus story I helped create at the Red Table … the adulterous wife.”
She is so complex! The narratives about the false narratives she has created she still wants to break. The mind is spinning.
Jada’s book is billed as “a woman’s journey of self-reinvention,” a pointless trope in our post-Oprah age of self-actualization.
Her publisher describes it as ‘an engaging, sometimes painfully honest’ — note that qualifier, ‘sometimes’ — ‘and ultimately an inspiring memoir by global superstar Jada Pinkett Smith.’
A global superstar! The fallacy is strong with this one.
Will: Petition for divorce. For real. Jada’s only currency is being Mrs. Will Smith — when it suits her, that is.
And for anyone considering buying this book — well, as Jada’s amazing, self-contradictory, smug statements should tell us: Buyer beware.
We literally can’t believe a word she says.