Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett looked closer than ever as they enjoyed a rare date night in LA on Thursday – their first sighting together since May.
The Oscar winner, 56, and the Scream 2 star, 52, wrapped their arms around each other at a restaurant – 13 months after revealing they had secretly decided to split in 2016.
Jada looked casually cool in a gold jacket and jeans as she chatted with her husband, who wore a gray jacket, white T-shirt and slacks.
The pair enthusiastically greeted life coach and former monk Jay Shetty, 37, over dinner.
The status of Will and Jada’s marriage is complex. The last time they were pictured together in public was at the May premiere of Will’s movie Bad Boys: Ride Or Die.
Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett looked closer than ever as they enjoyed a rare date night in LA on Thursday – their first sighting together since May
The status of Will and Jada’s marriage is complex. The last time they were pictured together in public was at the May premiere of Will’s film Bad Boys: Ride Or Die
The I Am Legend star was joined by the actress – who he called his “ride or die” – at the TCL Chinese Theater.
It was a family affair as the couple were also joined by their children Willow, 24, and Jaden, 26, and Will’s eldest son Trey, 31, from his first marriage to Sheree Zampino, 56.
His mother-in-law Adrienne Banfield-Norris, 70, also showed her support and posed for photos with the family on the red carpet.
While appearing on the Today Show in October 2023, Pinkett Smith told Hoda Kotb that they made the decision to separate seven years earlier after feeling “exhausted from trying” to work on their marriage.
“I think we were both still stuck in our fantasies of what we thought the other should be like,” she explained, causing them to drift apart.
In Pinkett Smith’s book, Worthy, she describes the separation as a “divorce,” but she clarified that they never filed any paperwork.
‘On paper it was not a divorce. But it was a divorce,” Pinkett Smith said.
The Oscar winner, 56, and the Scream 2 star, 52, wrapped their arms around each other at a restaurant – 13 months after revealing they had secretly decided to split in 2016
The pair looked close as they hugged during dinner
Jada looked casually cool in a gold jacket and jeans as she chatted with her husband, who wore a gray jacket, white T-shirt and pants
The pair enthusiastically greeted life coach and former monk Jay Shetty, 37, over dinner
The trio chatted while at LA’s Crossroads Kitchen
Both Will and Jada were guests on Jay’s podcast
The couple looked cheerful as they headed out for the evening
The outing was a very rare date night for the couple
In the interview, the mother of two – who admitted in 2020 to having an affair with singer August Alsina – said she considered a legal divorce but was never able to go through with it, and candidly revealed she had a ‘promise’ done. told her husband that she would never give him a ‘reason’ to divorce.
She noted that no final decisions have been made about the future of her marriage, explaining that she and Will are “still figuring it out.”
“We did some really hard work together,” she said. “We just have a deep love for each other and we’re going to figure out what that looks like.”
Jada’s marriage to Will came under major public criticism in 2020, when she interviewed him on her chat show Red Table Talk about an “entanglement” she had four years earlier with Alsina, who is 21 years her junior.
The I Am Legend star was joined by children Willow, 24, and Jaden, 26, and his eldest son Trey, 31, from his first marriage to Sheree Zampino, 56, in May. His mother-in-law, Adrienne Banfield-Norris, 70, was also present
The relationship gained even more fame in 2022 when Will slammed Chris Rock at the Oscars for making a bald joke about Jada that visibly offended her.
Speaking to Ny Breaking’s YOU Magazine, Pinkett Smith said that ‘a lot of positive things came after Smith punched Rock.
“After all those years of trying to figure out if I would leave Will’s side, it took that blow to see that I will never leave him. Who knows where our relationship would be if that hadn’t happened?’