Will Smith says Jada Pinkett Smith’s truth bombs ‘kind of woke him up’ to the fact that his estranged wife is more ‘resilient, smart and compassionate than he realized’ and says he developed ’emotional blindness’ to her ‘hidden nuances’.
Will Smith said Jada Pinkett Smith’s truth bombs ‘kind of woke him up’ to the fact that his estranged wife is more ‘resilient, smart and compassionate than he realized’.
The actor admitted in an email that he developed ’emotional blindness’ to her ‘hidden nuances’ after Jada revealed to the world that the pair had been leading ‘completely separate lives’ since 2016.
The high-profile Hollywood couple married in 1997 and have addressed breakups and marital problems in the past, but Pinkett Smith revealed in an interview with Hoda Kotb that the pair essentially have an undocumented divorce.
Smith (55) and Pinkett Smith (52) share two children, Willow and Jaden, as well as a son, Trey, from Smith’s first marriage.
The actor admitted in an email that he developed ’emotional blindness’ to her ‘hidden nuances’ after Jada revealed to the world that the pair had been living ‘completely separate lives’ since 2016.
The NYT said that her new memoir called Worthy ‘kind of woke Will’.
Will told the paper in an email: ‘When you’ve been with someone for more than half your life, a kind of emotional blindness sets in, and you can all too easily lose your sensitivity to their hidden nuances and subtleties. lose beauty.’
He only now realized that she was “more resilient, clever and compassionate than he realized,” the NYT reported.
News of the couple’s split came as a surprise to many, considering Pinkett Smith’s candor on her Red Table Talk series, in which she and Smith addressed her extramarital affair in a 2020 episode, and the slap at the 2022 Academy Awards.
At the ceremony, Smith infamously walked on stage and hit host Chris Rock after Rock made a joke about Pinkett Smith’s hair.
Smith has apologized multiple times for the incident, which earned him a 10-year ban from attending the Oscars or any other academy event.
And then no one in the public knew that the highly publicized couple had been living separately since 2016.
Since then, she and Smith have made many public statements of their love and admiration for each other, suggesting that their split was amicable.